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As of 2015, Japan is the country with the highest capacity of pumped-storage hydroelectricity in the world, with 26 GW of power installed. [4] After the 2011 nuclear power shutdowns, pumped-storage plants have been increasingly used to balance the variable generation of renewable energy sources such as solar, which have been growing rapidly in ...
The tallest dam in Japan is the 186 m (610 ft) high Kurobe Dam. The largest dam by structural volume in the country is the Tokuyama Dam (pictured) with 13,700,000 m 3 (17,900,000 cu yd) of rock-fill. Tokuyama also creates Japan's largest reservoir with a water volume of 660,000,000 m 3 (540,000 acre⋅ft). [1]
The upper reservoir of the Markersbach PSPS Dam of Siah Bishe Pumped Storage Power Plant The Tumut-3 Hydroelectric Power Station The upper Minamiaiki Dam of the Kannagawa Hydropower Plant Castaic Power Plant Main pump-generator hall of Vianden Pumped Storage Plant Upper reservoir for Coo-Trois-Ponts PSPS Goldisthal Pumped Storage Station Mingtan Dam
Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames (姓, sei), [1] as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced and romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames written the same in kanji may also be pronounced differently. [2]
This page is a list of power stations in Japan that are publicly or privately owned. List. The Ikata Nuclear Power Plant.
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Therefore, to those familiar with Japanese names, which name is the surname and which is the given name is usually apparent, no matter in which order the names are presented. It is thus unlikely that the two names will be confused, for example, when writing in English while using the family name-given name naming order.
Place names in Okinawa Prefecture are drawn from the traditional Ryukyuan languages. Many place names use the unique languages names, while other place names have both a method of reading the name in Japanese and a way to read the name in the traditional local language. The capital city Naha is Naafa in the Okinawan language.