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• Notice of discontinuance of publication

• The potential of the inspection business for PV maintenance based on the use of drones
• A panel airborne imagery service using drones in ALSOK and PV maintenance gets fully underway

• How to view the PV maintenance business which is showing a trend toward expansion
• Interview at the Japan Solar Power Maintenance Association
• The nemesis of the solar industry: keeping the weeds away
• The level of the growth of weeds when using the weed prevention sheet

• XSOL, Vice President Shinichi Suzuki, “The road straight to PV utilization remains unchanged. We’re involved with a strong belief in the potential of PV power generation.”

• ReneSolar Japan: Shipments last year more than doubled those of the year before

• The JR Railway Technical Research Institute: Develops a superconductive flywheel electric power storage system
• Trials began in August at a PV power station in Yamanashi Prefecture, a combination with renewable energy in sight

• The Smart Energy Technical Research Center of Toyota Technological Institute holds the 6th Symposium

• Solarig Japan: Its new electric power station development business in the Japanese market up by 10%
• Yingli Green Energy: Danger of removal from the NYSE
• Solar Frontier: Supplied a CIS thin film solar cell module to a 26MW power station
• ET Solar: Expands business in Turkey
• Schneider Electric: announces a Tricon CX compact safety system
• Canadian Solar: constructs 1000MW scale PV power generation station
• First Solar: Constructs 300MW scale electric power station
• Rene Solar: Expands its business in the US
• Solar World: Shipment of modules did well during the first half of 2015
• LDK Solar: Supplied modules to a Thai developer
• Taleson Solar: signs a module supply contract with a French power station

• (1) Hydrogen stations using renewable energy: installation at 5 locations nationwide, using a subsidy from the Ministry of the Environment
• (2) Panasonic Eco Solutions: supplies a state-of-the-art PV module “FIT” to solar car of the Tokai University team

• Fukunaga Architecture Research Institute: Develops a wire type frame
• 4R Energy: Promotes the application of use of 12kWh lithium ion storage battery
• Tabuchi Electric: Through a tie up with a US IT firm, develops software for PCS with PV usage
• Tri Chemical Laboratories: Increase in earnings and profit for thin film type solar cell material during the second quarter, sales up, pulled along by sales to China
• Japan Solar: Anticipates sales of JPY1.5 billion for this term
• Nipron: Monitoring system PV maximizer，sales of about \200 million for 2014, its first year
• Solar Frontier: opens an energy classroom
• Rakuten, Marubeni: a business alliance for retail sales of electric power for those demanding low voltage

• Technology trials for recovering CO2 emitted from coal fired thermal power stations
• Explanation of the Callide Oxyfuel Project

• Revision of FIT

• Japan Solar Energy Society task force holds its 14th seminar: “The Business Risks of the Solar Cell Power Generation Business and the Development of the Business.”

• Trina Solar: begins sales of new, high efficiency small modules for home use
• NTT Smile Energy: attaches an output control function to its PV monitoring system for low voltage power generation stations, “Eco Eye Glass”
• Kaname: Begins sales of a new solar cell as part of the roof
• Hanhwa Q Cells Japan: begins taking orders for its new module “Q.PLUS-G4”
• Okamura Sangyo: the remote controlled power restoration system Hatsuden Shocho went on sale as of January of this year.

• Monthly electric power generation

• Dates for the announcement of financial reports from the latter half of September to October

• Monitoring Overview