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How Toshiba Is Promoting the Widespread Adoption of Renewable Energy – Predicting Power Generation Volumes and Developing Power Trading Strategies with AI

How Toshiba Is Promoting the Widespread Adoption of Renewable Energy – Predicting Power Generation Volumes and Developing Power Trading Strategies with AI

If we are going to counter climate change, its droughts, heat waves and torrential rain, we need to cut greenhouse gas emissions to zero, and fast. Over 150 countries have target years for realizing c…

2023/06/22
Superconducting Motors are on the Flight Path to Carbon Neutral Planes, Part2 -The next step is to fly with them

Superconducting Motors are on the Flight Path to Carbon Neutral Planes, Part2 -The next step is to fly with them

The aviation industry aims to reduce CO₂emissions from international flights by 15% from 2024 on, benchmarked against 2019, and to cut them to net zero by 2050. In Part 1 of this two-part article we r…

2023/04/19
Superconducting Motors are on the Flight Path to Carbon Neutral Planes, Part1 – Breaking Down Barriers No One has Overcome, for the Future of Aircraft

Superconducting Motors are on the Flight Path to Carbon Neutral Planes, Part1 – Breaking Down Barriers No One has Overcome, for the Future of Aircraft

In October 2022, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the UN specialized agency that coordinates and develops international air navigation and travel, set new targets for reducing CO₂ emissi…

2023/04/07
Toward Sustainable Electric Power Infrastructure, Part 2 -Toshiba’s Technology Makes the Difficult Possible, the Resolve of a Leading Company

Toward Sustainable Electric Power Infrastructure, Part 2 -Toshiba’s Technology Makes the Difficult Possible, the Resolve of a Leading Company

L. to R., Norimitsu Kato, Tomoya Onishi, Shuhei Takao, Toru Koike, Yuko Imazawa, Toshiyuki Uchii, Hideaki Shirai, Akihisa Mukaida In June 2022 torrential rains and flooding in southern China caused da…

2023/02/24
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