Featured in The quality issue – 04-2018

Sunshine for Fukushima

Solar in Japan: As Kapan continues to wean itself off nuclear power, solar PV has assumed a vital role in aiding the transition to renewable energy. In Fukushima, a series of solar plants have already been installed, but one new addition to the region – a module fab – poses an altogether different set of challenges and opportunities, as pv magazine’s Managing Editor Ian Clover discovers.

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Ian Clover

06 Apr 2018

The wispy cloud cover that blanketed Tokyo as our train departed Ueno Station in the early hours of a crisp March morning had burned away by the time it pulled into Tatsuta Station, 2.5 hours and 240 km to the northeast. Early March in northern Japan can often be warm, bright, and sunny. And while it …

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