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Coming on strong

Japan: The new feed-in tariffs for fiscal year 2013 have been proposed. Izumi Kaizuka of RTS Corporation describes the impact of the 2012 FIT program and the discussion of the new solar PV FIT, which should come into effect this month.

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04 Apr 2013

After the start of the feed-in tariff program in July 2012, the Japanese PV market significantly changed. The domestic shipment volume of solar modules almost doubled in 2012 to 2,467 MW from 1,296 MW in 2011. As the amount of imported PV modules increased, the ratio of domestically-produced PV cells and modules accounted for 68.8% …

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