The reason ORIX Group, one of Japan’s leading renewable energy operators, has entered the market for battery storage can be simply stated, but hides a big ambition: to turn unreliable renewables into a steady, 24-hour a day power source.

Data centers; gigafactories; semiconductor fabs. The boom in giant infrastructure projects, alongside continued construction of new logistics centers, warehouses and factories means private companies have a rapidly rising demand for power,…

Most people coming through an airport these days are likely to be thinking, at least in passing, about the planet-warming carbon dioxide that their travel will generate.

The trajectory is clear: after adding 3 Gigawatts of capacity to its global renewable energy portfolio over the past five years, ORIX Group is planning to add another 6GW in the next six years– taking the total to 10GW by 2030.

Amazon is one of the world’s largest and best-known companies, and as such has made a public commitment to reach net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2040. Harnessing the potential of renewable energy will help achieve that target, and ORI…

If there is one business in ORIX Group’s wide portfolio that appears designed to match the group’s new Purpose statement of “Finding Paths. Making Impact.” it is the Environment and Energy segment, which spans renewables, electric power re…

When ORIX started its international expansion more than 50 years ago, Asia was a logical first move: not only were East and South-East Asian countries on its doorstep and growing rapidly, but management also saw a clear path to developing …

ORIX Group celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2024, and over the 60 years since its founding has grown into a unique corporate group with an annual net income of nearly 300 billion yen and around 30,000 people worldwide. This growth has la…

Windmills are a familiar sight in La Mancha, the rural region of Spain that lies south-east of Madrid. Cervantes, after all, had Don Quixote tilting at them here in his eponymous seventeenth-century epic. Even so, the giant wind turbines b…

Cows give us milk, meat and…methane. Traditionally a mainstay of every pastoral landscape, more and more people these days consider cattle an environmental hazard due to the ‘natural gas’ they emit directly into the atmosphere. Methane, af…

These days it the norm for companies to actively engage in social issues. Indeed, the value of a company is increasingly linked to how it can contribute to sustainability in its truest sense.

The adoption of renewable energy including solar, geothermal, wind and biomass is increasing around the world as a part of efforts to create a greener and more sustainable world. ORIX anticipated this growth and now boasts a total net owne…