Featured in Technology Highlights 2017 – 04-2017

Still big in Japan

PV Expo Japan: This year’s flagship solar exhibition for the Japanese market held few surprises. Indeed, the event continued a reassuring trend of sensible solar policy and sober industry response, marked by Japan’s gradual shift towards decentralized energy and self-consumption, and a healthy dose of large-scale realism.
By
Ian Clover
SONY DSC

Japan does not do ‘knee-jerk’. Despite its infamously wacky TV shows, this is a nation of reserved calm, of patience, order and obedience. Foreigners seem to find irresistible the urge to try to compare the Japanese to other nationalities. “They are like the British!”, you might here as the be-suited salarymen begin their post-work wind …

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