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Project boom

Japan: Since the new feed-in tariff program took effect on July 1, 2012, an increasing number of large-scale solar power plants have been constructed all over Japan. An analysis by Izumi Kaizuka of RTS Corporation, a consulting firm based in Tokyo.

More and more companies are entering the PV power generation business in Japan, ranging from major corporations, through small- and medium-sized enterprises, to local industrial entities. At the end of August, about 40 days after the ministerial ordinance on the feed-in tariff (FIT) program had been announced, which went into effect on July 31, the …

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