Japan plans to transmit solar energy from space to Earth

Japan and its space agency called JAXA have been trying for decades to enable the transmission of solar energy from space, and now a deadline of 2025 has been set.
In 2015, JAXA scientists made a major breakthrough when they transmitted 1.8 kilowatts of power 50 meters from a wireless receiver. That’s enough energy to power an electric kettle, and now the Japanese are ready to bring this technology “closer” to reality.
A Japanese public-private partnership aims to transmit solar energy from space by 2025. The project is led by Naoki Shinohara, a Kyoto University professor who has been working on solar energy from space since 2009, and the plan is to launch a series of small satellites into orbit. Those satellites will try to transmit the solar energy they collect to ground stations hundreds of kilometers away.