TRENDE Inc., a renewable energy retailer in Japan, announced today that it has successfully completed a Series B funding round from ITOCHU Corporation of 1 billion yen in a combination of equity and unsecured convertible bonds.
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Eurus Energy America Corporation (San Diego, CA), MORGENROT Inc (Tokyo), and WOODMAN Inc. (Tokyo) today announced that they will start providing distributed cloud-based CG rendering services to meet the increasing demand of high-speed rendering needs from various industries such as content creation, industrial design, entertainment, and more.
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TRENDE Inc., a Tokyo Electric Power Company group company, Toyota Motor Corporation, and the University of Tokyo will conduct a joint experiment, from June 2019 at Toyota's Higashi Fuji Technical Center and the surrounding area, with a next-generation peer-to-peer (P2P) electricity system that enables homes, businesses, and electric vehicles (EVs) connected to the electricity grid to trade electricity using a blockchain.
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As announced on June 6, 2018, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc., TEPCO Energy Partner, Inc., TEPCO Power Grid, Inc., Hitachi Systems Power Services, LTD., Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, Shizuoka Gas Co., Ltd. and Hitachi Solutions, Ltd. have been engaged in joint experiments to demonstrate the construction of a virtual power plant.
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Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. (TEPCO) announced today that it has acquired 36.38% of the shares in Viet Hydro, the majority shareholder of Lao Cai Renewable Energy, from InfraCo Asia, a company of the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), for the purpose of participating in the Coc San Hydropower Plant (total output: 29,700 kilowatts) in Lao Cai Province, Vietnam.
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TRENDE Inc., an online renewable energy retailer selling electricity to residential customers in Japan, announces the formation of its Advisory Board to provide strategic guidance and advice to management. The members include Yoshiaki Fujimori, Emmy Suzuki Harris, Hiroaki Kitano, Masaakira James Kondo, and Yukiko Muto.
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TRENDE Inc., an online renewable energy retailer selling electricity to residential customers in Japan, today announced it has closed a JPY 730 million Series A funding round led by TEPCO Ventures with strategic investments from Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. and Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA).
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TEPCO Ventures, Zenrin and Rakuten announced today that they have begun examining the utilization of "drone highways," or the airspace above infrastructure such as power transmission lines, for drone logistics.
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Free Electrons, the first energy accelerator program that connects the most promising energy startups with the world's leading utility companies, wrapped on its second module with an impressive total of 28 pilots running, and the final module in Berlin to come.
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Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. (TEPCO) announced today that it has established TEPCO Ventures, Inc. as a wholly owned subsidiary charged with turning new businesses into venture companies.
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Electric industry leader Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. (TEPCO) announced today that it has joined forces with IT and entertainment developer Pocket Queries Inc. to develop a mixed-reality (MR) solution that will combine the real and virtual worlds for fast, easy, three-dimensional visualization of data in the workplace.
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Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. (TEPCO) and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) announced today the launch of TNcross Corporation, a joint venture that will facilitate cross-industrial innovation by leveraging the two industry leaders' assets and know-how, including TEPCO's power-control technology and NTT's ICT expertise.
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Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. (TEPCO) announced today the launch of TRENDE Inc., an online renewable energy retailer selling electricity to residential customers in Japan.
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Free Electrons, the first global energy startup accelerator program that connects the world's most promising energy startup companies with leading utility companies, selected 30 startups to participate in the program.
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The Governing Board of Free Electrons, the first global energy startup accelerator program that connects the world's most promising energy startup companies with leading utility companies, is pleased to announce that American Electric Power (AEP) will become its first North American utility member.
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Nearing his first anniversary in office, TEPCO President Tomoaki Kobayakawa spoke at a press conference held at the Federation of Electric Power Companies (FEPC) of Japan, in which he set out a bold vision for global growth and investment in renewables while also pledging to continue providing strong support for the restoration of Fukushima.
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The application deadline for the second edition of Free Electrons has been extended. This application is a global acceleration program for startups that TEPCO launched with 7 other international utilities in December 2017 to recruit energy startups that will drive the next generation of ideas in clean energy, energy efficiency, e-mobility, digitization, and on-demand customer services.
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Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) and TEPCO Fuel & Power, Inc. are combining a new remote optimization center with the "Internet of Things" (IoT) to increase the fuel efficiency and other operations of its thermal power plants.
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Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. and Curtiss-Wright Corporation have created a strategic alliance designed to boost the efficiency of thermal power plants, an important element in the fight against climate change.
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Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. (TEPCO) announced today that it closed an early-stage bridging round investment in Electron at the end of 2017.
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Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. (TEPCO), together with 7 other international utilities, today announced the launch of the second edition of Free Electrons, a global startup acceleration program to recruit energy startups that will drive the next generation of ideas in clean energy, energy efficiency, e-mobility, digitization, and on-demand customer services.
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TEPCO Holdings, the Tokyo-based electric power company, announced today it has acquired from Colorado-based Renewable Energy Systems Americas Inc. (RES), 50 percent interests of Battery Utility of Ohio, LLC (BUO), that provides frequency regulation services to PJM, a regional U.S. transmission network operator. TEPCO, through the acquisition, and RES will each own 50 percent of BUO.
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Conjoule GmbH, a start-up developing peer-to-peer energy markets enabled by blockchain technology has closed a EUR 4.5 million Series A investment round from two strategic investors, the innogy Innovation Hub and Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. (TEPCO).
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TEPCO is holding its first "Electricity Load Forecasting Technology Contest" to identify new methods for forecasting electricity load within the service area of TEPCO Power Grid, Incorporated ("TEPCO PG"). Contest participants are to compete in accurately forecasting electricity load via TEPCO's open innovation website, "TEPCO CUUSOO." The Contest opens today.
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Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. announced today that it has joined forces with Centrica plc, Elia, Engie, Royal Dutch Shell plc, Sempra Energy, SP Group, Statoil ASA, Stedin, and TWL to support the Energy Web Foundation, a non-profit organization whose mission is to accelerate the commercial deployment of blockchain technology in the energy sector.
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Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. announced that Free Electrons, a global accelerator program for innovative energy-related startups, has selected its first cohort of 12 innovative energy startups selected from 450 applications across 51 countries.
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Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. has announced an equity investment in Moixa Energy Holdings, the UK's leading residential battery company.
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