Featured in Array of light for Japan – 02-2016

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Japan has made it again: For the second year running, Japan was one of the worlds leading PV nations, adding some 10 GW of new solar PV capacity in 2015. This year will prove crucial due to the anticipated liberalization of Japans retail electricity market and other policy changes that the energy ministry is planning specifically for the PV sector. So what will 2016 and beyond look like for Japans solar landscape?

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Ilias Tsagas

12 Feb 2016

Japan’s cumulative solar PV capacity at the end of 2015 is likely to reach somewhere between 33 GW to 36 GW. According to information gleaned from Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), and reported by Bloomberg, the country installed 23.3 GW of solar PV capacity by the end of 2014. In 2015, Bloomberg …

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