JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization) has released a regional analysis report on the current status of overseas cooperation by companies in Fukushima prefecture. It is titled “Seeking to Become a Frontrunner in the Field of Renewable Energy, Fukushima Partners with Europe”. Fukushima Prefecture has supported technology exchange and business matching between companies in Fukushima Prefecture and overseas companies through various subsidies and REIF (Renewable Energy Industrial Fair) Fukushima. This report introduces the activities of companies that have taken advantage of such opportunities to promote overseas collaboration. Seeking to Become a Frontrunner in the Field of Renewable Energy, Fukushima Partners with Europe (Part 1) Organizations that Support for Building Business Networks…

Fukushima Prefectural Government and EnergyAgency.FUKUSHIMA support the expansion of market channels abroad for excellent technologies and products developed by Fukushima-based companies for the purpose of growth and accumulation of renewable energy related industries. To that end, the prefectural government set up the Fukushima Prefecture exhibition booth at Wind Energy Hamburg 2022 held in September this year. The trade fair was physically held for the first time in 4 years for Covid-19 pandemic, and gathered exhibitors and visitors from wind power and hydrogen energy related companies from around Germany and the rest of the world. During the trade fair, the booth of Fukushima Prefecture was full of visitors and lively business…

Fukushima Prefectural Government and EnergyAgency.FUKUSHIMA (EA.F) conducted the Fukushima Prefectural Government Invitation Program along with the 11th FUKUSHIMA Renewable Energy Industrial Fair (REIF Fukushima 2022) & FUKUSHIMA ZERO CARBON DAY! 2022. The trade fair was held from Thursday October 13 to Saturday October 15 at Big Palette FUKUSHIMA located in Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture. Renewable energy industry support organizations and companies put up booths at the trade fair. They were from the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany; the state of Hamburg, Germany; the Basque Country of Spain; and the Kingdom of Denmark with which the prefectural government have signed MoUs for mutual business cooperation. The prefectural government invited 4…

Joint Declaration of Intent (JDI) between EnergyAgency.FUKUSHIMA and NRW.Energy4Climate (Germany) in the field of Renewable Energy 12.07.2022 EnegyAgency.FUKUSHIMA signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with EnergyAgency.NRW, which was a support organization of industry in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) in November 2017, and has promoted mutual economic exchange through various projects. This was realized following a conclusion of MoU between Fukushima Prefecture and the State of NRW, Germany. Due to organizational restructuring of the industrial support organization in NRW, EnergyAgency.NRW was dissolved, and a new state-run organization NRW.Energy4Climate was established. Its role is to integrate and implement policies on renewable energy, energy transition and climate change measures. Following such…

Fukushima Prefecture/EnergyAgency.FUKUSHIMA support Fukushima-based companies to expand their market share of technologies and products overseas in order to grow and accumulate renewable energy industry in the region. To that end, the prefecture exhibited a pavilion at HUSUM Wind 2021 which took place in HUSUM Germany, this September. 1  Name: HUSUM Wind 2021 (Trade Fair for the Wind Industry) 2  Term: 14 -17 September, 2021 3  Venue: Messe HUSUM & CONGRESS, HUSUM, Schleswig-Holstein State 4  Number of Exhibitors and Visitors: 387 exhibitors and 8,500 visitors 5  Number of participants from Fukushima Prefecture: 3 companies 14 B2B matchings so far 6  B2B matching: Online 7  Seminar: International Wind Energy Forum (Managing Director…