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12.2 GW Of New Solar Approved Until February In Japan
By Karl-Friedrich Lenz
CleanTechnica
May 18, 2013
This article was originally published on Lenz Blog.
The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Trade
just published�figures for renewable energy under the new
feed-in tariff law in force since last July. Thanks to
this tweet by Hiro Matsubara�for the link.
Japan solar home, sort of.
Image Credit: Shutterstock
To state the result in very short terms, wind is
struggling even with the very high tariffs in place, and
solar is headed for the �rocket start� former Prime
Minister�Noda called for last October.
The Japanese figures come in two flavors. One set is for
installations that have started producing electricity,
and the other one is for installations that have received
approval from the Ministry. The latter one is the higher
one, it includes capacity that will come online shortly,
but is not yet commissioned.
Using those latter figures, solar recorded 12.2 GW until
February. That�s not bad, considering that Japan had only
about 5.3 GW of solar installed at the end of 2011.
Adjusting for the larger population of Japan, this is
comparable to the German records of the last couple of
years. Not bad at all.
On the other hand, the rocket for wind energy is still
firmly planted on the ground. The Ministry reports a
measly anemic 0.6 GW of approved capacity. The problem
with wind is, you need much more time from starting a
project to getting it to the approval stage. Anyway, it
will take some time for wind to get up to speed in Japan.
The numbers are still very disappointing.
The new solar capacity is spread rather evenly all over
the country. The interesting thing is that the biggest
chunk is located in Hokkaido, the most northern island.
It certainly does not have the best solar resources. But
I assume it is easier to find the land for megasolar
projects there. Hokkaido�has about 1.13 GW, with 0.97 of
that coming from projects with over 1 MW capacity.
More at:
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/18/12-2-gw-of-new-solar-approved-until-february-in-japan/
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By Karl-Friedrich Lenz
CleanTechnica
May 18, 2013
This article was originally published on Lenz Blog.
The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Trade
just published�figures for renewable energy under the new
feed-in tariff law in force since last July. Thanks to
this tweet by Hiro Matsubara�for the link.
Japan solar home, sort of.
Image Credit: Shutterstock
To state the result in very short terms, wind is
struggling even with the very high tariffs in place, and
solar is headed for the �rocket start� former Prime
Minister�Noda called for last October.
The Japanese figures come in two flavors. One set is for
installations that have started producing electricity,
and the other one is for installations that have received
approval from the Ministry. The latter one is the higher
one, it includes capacity that will come online shortly,
but is not yet commissioned.
Using those latter figures, solar recorded 12.2 GW until
February. That�s not bad, considering that Japan had only
about 5.3 GW of solar installed at the end of 2011.
Adjusting for the larger population of Japan, this is
comparable to the German records of the last couple of
years. Not bad at all.
On the other hand, the rocket for wind energy is still
firmly planted on the ground. The Ministry reports a
measly anemic 0.6 GW of approved capacity. The problem
with wind is, you need much more time from starting a
project to getting it to the approval stage. Anyway, it
will take some time for wind to get up to speed in Japan.
The numbers are still very disappointing.
The new solar capacity is spread rather evenly all over
the country. The interesting thing is that the biggest
chunk is located in Hokkaido, the most northern island.
It certainly does not have the best solar resources. But
I assume it is easier to find the land for megasolar
projects there. Hokkaido�has about 1.13 GW, with 0.97 of
that coming from projects with over 1 MW capacity.
More at:
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/18/12-2-gw-of-new-solar-approved-until-february-in-japan/
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-maharaj
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o Not for commercial use. Solely to be fairly used
for the educational purposes of research and open
discussion. The contents of this post may not have been
authored by, and do not necessarily represent the opinion
of the poster. The contents are protected by copyright
law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
o If you send private e-mail to me, it will likely
not be read, considered or answered if it does not
contain your full legal name, current e-mail and postal
addresses, and live-voice telephone number.
o Posted for information and discussion. Views
expressed by others are not necessarily those of the
poster who may or may not have read the article.
FAIR USE NOTICE: This article may contain copyrighted
material the use of which may or may not have been
specifically authorized by the copyright owner. This
material is being made available in efforts to advance
the understanding of environmental, political, human
rights, economic, democratic, scientific, social, and
cultural, etc., issues. It is believed that this
constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material
as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the
material on this site is distributed without profit to
those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving
the included information for research, comment,
discussion and educational purposes by subscribing to
USENET newsgroups or visiting web sites. For more
information go to:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml
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for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you
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Since newsgroup posts are being removed by forgery by one
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