Renewable energy think tank for post-disaster contribution

The Fukushima Renewable Energy Institute, AIST (FREA), a unit of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), was inaugurated on April 1 at an industrial park in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture. Ahead of the start of work, FREA head Yoshiro Owadano urged institute staff to accomplish its two missions: promotion of R&D on renewable energy in a manner open to the world, and contribution to post-disaster reconstruction through the accumulation of new industrial clusters. Read more

(Fukushima Minpo,2 April 2014)