Energy

Toward Sustainable Electric Power Infrastructure, Part 1 -Can We Eliminate Greenhouse Gases from High-Voltage Power Transmission Equipment?

Toward Sustainable Electric Power Infrastructure, Part 1 -Can We Eliminate Greenhouse Gases from High-Voltage Power Transmission Equipment?

In summer 2022, for the first time in its history, London recorded a temperature of over 40-degrees Celsius. In Japan, torrential rains that trigger natural disasters are increasing in scale and inten…

2023/02/17
Battery Energy Storage System Monitoring Technology, the Driving Force behind the Increasing Penetration of Renewable Energy – A Growing Presence Spurred by the Emergence of the Electricity Demand-supply Balancing Market

Battery Energy Storage System Monitoring Technology, the Driving Force behind the Increasing Penetration of Renewable Energy – A Growing Presence Spurred by the Emergence of the Electricity Demand-supply Balancing Market

In July 2020, torrential rains swept through western and northern Japan, and in the following month a temperature of 54.4C was recorded in California’s Death Valley, the highest ever recorded on the p…

2023/01/25
Toshiba’s Commitment to a Carbon-Neutral Future

Toshiba’s Commitment to a Carbon-Neutral Future

Efforts to counteract the global issue of climate change have brought carbon neutrality—reduction of greenhouse gases to zero—into the mainstream in Europe and around the world. At the same time, driv…

2022/10/28
An engineer in Provence picks up the gauntlet:　A global team takes on the future of energy

An engineer in Provence picks up the gauntlet:　A global team takes on the future of energy

Fusion power is the energy source that will create the future. Its potential has caught the eye of Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, and Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, and both have made huge …

2022/10/05
Designing the future of energy – converting CO₂ from the villain to a new hero -The Start of the “Carbon Recycling” Era

Designing the future of energy – converting CO₂ from the villain to a new hero -The Start of the “Carbon Recycling” Era

Super-typhoons, record rainfall… It seems, in recent years, that the world has been thrown off-balance. News about climate change has become a permanent fixture. Extreme weather—floods, droughts, reco…

2022/09/30
Toshiba’s young engineers: Tackling climate change with abundant water resources

Toshiba’s young engineers: Tackling climate change with abundant water resources

Sweltering heat and torrential rain. Extreme weather events across the globe, triggered by climate change are being countered with efforts to reduce and control greenhouse gas emissions. Nonetheless, …

2022/09/07
The future of medicine set into motion by the Yamagata Model, a new cancer treatment technology: Taking on the challenge of global standardization of heavy ion therapy equipment

The future of medicine set into motion by the Yamagata Model, a new cancer treatment technology: Taking on the challenge of global standardization of heavy ion therapy equipment

“Music plays in the treatment room, and it is a relaxing environment. If nobody had told me, I wouldn’t have known I was being irradiated. There’s no pain and the irradiation time is short, so I’m gla…

2022/07/20
In the vanguard of cancer treatment that respects quality of life, Part 2 -Introduction of new heavy ion technology shakes up the medical field

In the vanguard of cancer treatment that respects quality of life, Part 2 -Introduction of new heavy ion technology shakes up the medical field

There are only seven units of heavy ion radiotherapy equipment in Japan. They are drawing attention as a new treatment, a paradigm shift in cancer treatment. This treatment was not available in the To…

2022/07/13
In the vanguard of cancer treatment that respects quality of life, Part 1 -Lower burden from understanding the patient’s and medical staff’s perspective

In the vanguard of cancer treatment that respects quality of life, Part 1 -Lower burden from understanding the patient’s and medical staff’s perspective

In the dead of night back in November 2018, a time when roads are quiet, cars few, a large truck left Sendai Port in northeast Japan. Its oversized load, slowly and steadily completing the overland le…

2022/07/06
Generating the perfect partnership to provide powerful Data and Intelligence to Tackle Climate Change (part 2)

Generating the perfect partnership to provide powerful Data and Intelligence to Tackle Climate Change (part 2)

In May 2021, the acquisition of U.S.-based GP Strategies’ power plant monitoring system EtaPRO™ division by Toshiba Energy Systems Solutions was finalized.   In part one, members at the forefront of …

2021/12/24