An article published on the online version of Australian newspaper The Age explains how Japan is boosting applications for solar installations across the country:
‘Domestic shipments of solar cells and modules in Japan leapt by their most in at least 30 years last fiscal year as government efforts to spur clean energy after the 2011 Fukushima disaster began to pay off.’
‘The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry approved 12,258 megawatts worth of solar projects — both residential and non- residential — by the end of February. That accounts for 94 per cent of all applications for clean energy tariffs since the program started.’
Approved solar projects are the equal to almost half of Japan’s installed capacity of clean energy at the end of 2012, according to data compiled by Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
We also learn that while Japan’s solar installations are forecast to lag China’s this year, the country is set to become the largest market in terms of revenue.
We don’t know how long the boom in solar will last, but Japan embracing solar is a positive fall-out after the 2011 meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi plant…
