Featured in Approaching the peak – 04-2013

Japanese boom

PV market in Japan: At the moment Japan is probably the most attractive PV market in the world. This could easily be seen at the PV Expo trade show in Tokyo at the beginning of March. Promising business opportunities are on offer particularly for companies with high quality products. Up to 5 GW of additional PV capacity is expected to be added this year.

Ena Masui from the event organizer Reed Exhibitions had to revise estimates of the visitors in attendance at the World Smart Energy Week 2013, which also provided a framework for PV Expo. Officially 76,340 professional trade exhibition visitors attended (not including conference participants) together with 1,585 exhibitors instead of the 125,000 professional trade exhibition visitors …

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