Solar Powered Apartments

Sekisui House says it will start selling apartments fitted with solar cell systems from next month. The firm is planning to piggyback on changing government legislation, which will require power companies to pay JPY48 per kW/hr for sustainable micro power generators (i.e., home-based solar cell and wind turbine owners) feeding to the national grid, from November. Right now, the utilities pay just JPY8per kW/hr. According to Sekisui, the new power systems will add about JPY5.6MM to the price of a typical four-room apartment, but amortized, this works out to just JPY5,000/month.

Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Co., Ltd. make acquisition

Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Co., Ltd.Tokyo, Japan Group of companies that develop and market innovative, high-quality products for storing, moving, and using digital content Acquired Freecom B.V.Rijswijk, Netherlands Data storage and multimedia solutions provider