Japan Wind Development's 51MW wind farm in Aomori prefecture, in northern Japan's Tohoku region, where the regional utility has revealed plans to resume its reviews of grid-access applications from renewables developers.

Japan utilities reveal plans to resume reviews of grid-access applications

Some of the Japanese utilities that stopped reviewing grid applications for new renewables projects have announced plans to start talking to developers again, as new regulations on access take hold this week.

28 January 2015 4:08 GMT Updated 28 January 2015 4:11 GMT

By Brian Publicover in Tokyo

Kyushu Electric Power and Tohoku Electric Power said in online statements this week that they will start looking at grid-access applications from developers of solar and wind projects.

The two companies — along with Hokkaido Electric Power, Shikoku Electric Power and Okinawa Electric Power — temporarily suspended grid access last autumn on claims that their grid networks have been destabilised by a flood of new solar projects that have been developed since the July 2012 introduction of Japan’s feed-in tariff (FIT) system.

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Japan utilities reveal plans to resume reviews of grid-access applications