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Insight: Chinas Top Runner PV program

China policy: In seeking to address various shortcomings in Chinas strong but flawed solar PV industry, the government has borrowed a scheme from its Japanese neighbors that has historically proven successful in raising the bar in terms of technical and performance standards. Can this program be translated seamlessly to the solar sector of China?

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pv magazine

12 Feb 2016

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If the name “Top Runner” is not immediately familiar to you, a brief history lesson: during the period from the late 1990s to the first decade after the turn of the millennium, the Japanese government launched a Top Runner program to increase the energy efficiency of around 20 kinds of major consumer appliances, namely TV sets, …

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