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TOKYO: Japan's Chubu Electric Power Co Inc will spend up to 5 billion yen ($39 million) to buy a 20 per cent stake in India's rural renewable energy service company, OMC Power Private Ltd, through a third-party allotment of shares. OMC operates about 280 renewable energy plants to provide electricity for telecom companies, small and medium businesses and rural houses via mini-grids, using storage batteries, in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. It aims to expand its network to 5,000 power plants by 2030, the Japanese…

The world’s first exascale supercomputer is not just the world’s most powerful by a margin but it is also the most efficient. Frontier, developed by US’s designated supercomputer facility, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, is the world’s first supercomputer to cross the performance margin of 1 exaflops. With this, the supercomputer has surpassed Fugaku, belonging to Japan’s Riken Centre for Computational Science, as the world’s most powerful supercomputer right now.…

The EU plans to transition to renewables more than twice as fast as Japan by 2030, according to new analysis released by global energy think tank Ember ahead of the G7 environment, climate, and energy ministers meeting, which kicks off today in Berlin. The ministers will decide whether and how G7 countries will commit to clean power by 2035.  Over the next eight years, the EU is planning to shift 32% of its total electricity production to renewables, while Japan is planning to shift only 13% of its own electricity…

The view from a swamp on Rishiri Island near Hokkaidō, Japan, where scientists sampled peat cores for paleoclimate research. Credit: Masanobu Yamamoto The island prefecture of Hokkaidō, Japan's second-largest island, has a rich cultural history of hunter-gatherers both on land and at sea. Over thousands of years through the Holocene and into the 19th century, the prevalence of these cultures across the island waxed and waned.…