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The 452nd Forum on Research Works was held on December 19, 2025.
"IEEJ Outlook 2026", Deepening Uncertainties Surrounding the Challenges of Energy Transition: A Widening Gap Between the Ideal and the Reality, has been released.
Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are often regarded as the only pathway for decarbonizing road transport. But are BEVs the only pathway? My Institute, IEEJ, has conducted a …
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It is often said that solar PV is the cheapest source of power. The conventional approach for cost calculation, Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE), generally shows that solar PV is …
Global electricity demand for data centers was flat until 2019. It started to rise in part by the shift to working from home, which in turn has driven the growth in cloud service after the …
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Speaker: Yu NAGATOMI, Ph.D.Executive Analyst, Manager, Econometric and Statistical Analysis Group (ESA), Energy Data and Modelling Center (EDMC), IEEJ Toshiyuki SAKAMOTO Board Member, Director, Climate Change and Energy Efficiency Unit, IEEJ Presentation materials for the The 21st IEEJ Webinar for the World(2026.1.7)
Author: Hiroshi Hashimoto The global LNG market continues witnessing record-breaking export volumes from the United States and the expansion of long-term contractual commitments. Supply Dynamics and Record Exports: The United States reached a significant milestone, with monthly shipments of LNG exceeding...
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Author: Akira Yanagisawa Recent years have seen frequent occur-rences of high temperatures, including three consecutive summers of intense heat up to 2025 (Figure 1). Simultaneously, there are voices suggesting that days where ...
Author: Ken Koyama The global and Japan’s energy landscape remains highly volatile, with uncertainty looming large. What kind of year will 2026 turn out to be? Based on the eleven outlooks on energy trends released by ...
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Author: Ken Koyama As 2025 draws to a close with only six days remaining, it is evident that the global and domestic energy landscape has continued to ...
2025.12.24
Author: Ichiro Kutani While efforts to combat climate change include accelerating the closure of coal-fired power stations, there are also signs that this approach is sometimes reconsidered in light of...
Author: Yoshikazu Koabyashi In the current international oil and natural gas markets, economic sanctions that restrict oil and natural gas trade for political and diplomatic purposes have come into ...
2025.12.23
Speakers:Ms. Laura Cozzi, Mr. Tim Gould (IEA) Video for the International Energy Symposium(2025.12.17)
Author: Hiroshi Hashimoto With the start of full-scale LNG exports from the West Coast of Canada in July 2025, the West Coast of North America may emerge as an important source of LNG supply for the ...
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Reality of coal power retirement
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2026 Global and Japanese Energy Outlook
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In the spring, cherry blossoms, in the summer, the cuckoo, in the autumn, the moon, and in the winter, the snow, clear, cold?
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The integration costs of variable renewable energies must be considered
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APERC and IEEJ will offer viewpoints on tackling the challenges described above under multiple pathways to carbon neutrality goal through discussions among prominent experts from various nationalities and backgrounds regarding the following topics: - Examining the gap between ideals and reality from various perspectives - Strategies to bridge the gap between ideals and reality - Innovations and measures to overcome the gap between ideals and reality
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