Featured in FUTURE PV – 09-2014

The boom continues

Japan: PV is big in Japan. Over the last two years the industry has blossomed under its generous FIT scheme. But many continue to ask whether the boom will continue or be stopped dead in its tracks. pv magazine reports from one of Japans biggest solar trade shows.

By

Jonathan Gifford

15 Sep 2014

One is dressed in yellow, the other bright blue. The lively performer in the blue has a stylized thought bubble on his head, his colleague a yellow foam block. The sizable crowd of onlookers watch the two exhort the virtues of Sharp solar modules through a series of games, competitions and songs. The flat screen …

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