SOLVISTO

• Smart

• Kyushu Electric, Okinawa Electric, new PV alliances for the remote islands are pending for a year. Okinawa, even on the main island, “Difficult to connect even from August on.”

• Increase module performance moves JIS too
• End of the Golden Age of the 30°slope
• New 5°and 10°standards for low slope installation

• A major home constructor Sekisui House
• Executive Director Noriaki Ogata
• “What we want from the panels is high output. Orders for industrial use are booming. Even more medium range solar cells.”

• Panasonic: establishes an independent power source PV in Indonesia
• Recom: establishes a company registered in Japan
• Sharp: transfers of its equity interest in a thin film solar cell company to an Italian electric power company, revises its operating profit for the year of its energy division upward
• Sun Power: concludes a 29MW panel supply contract with Nangoku Energy for their division for a mega system
• The government of Ontario Canada: corrects its means of giving preference to domestically produced products, comes down with a court ruling regarding the first violation of the WTO agreement in the field of renewable energy
• WTO: recognizes the Chinese claim regarding a violation of an international agreement involving some US CVD facilities

• Shibaura Group Holdings: with the creation of Shibaura Construction, “We are aiming at becoming the #1 general construction company in Kyushu.”
• Yasukawa Electric: acquires the US firm Solectria Renewables, takes one step toward a global strategy with a lineup from residential to mega use
• Nichiei Intec: puts a hybrid steel and aluminum frame on the market, utilizing the strength and effectiveness of the two metals

• The New PV Age: Numerous major seminars held
• Encounters with VIPs: CEO Eric Xin Luo of Suntech Power in Wuxi, CEO Shawn Ｑu of Canadian Solar

• Monitoring systems, high voltage magnets, accumulated sales exceeding 16,000 units to 9 major producers

• PV related stock market / Domestic module market / Plan to installation and trend of amount installed

• Jinko Solar Japan: opens an office in Osaka, 50 people assembled from related companies
• Sekisui House and Osaka Gas: Smart energy house, report on results of trial occupancy
• REC Solar Japan: reveals a half cut sell module at PV Japan
• Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry: initiates collection of reports on items of up to \37.8 per kWh
• Solar Frontier: A. Hirano, vice president and executive officer takes over as president
• The Japan Electrical Manufacturers Association: comes out with statistics on PCS deliveries in 2013 which show 9.7GW, a 2 fold increase over the previous year

• Sunrise
• Japan Life Support

• Mitsubishi Electric: comes out with highly efficient power converters, using SiC-IPM, markets 4 types for residential use
• Nipron: commercializes a string monitoring system
• Toshiba Mitsubishi Electric Industrial Systems: markets a new type of power converter without a transformer with a capacity of 250kW
• Tokai EC: markets a brand new low voltage, portable remote control monitoring system
• Hory Corporation: markets an H steel frame package
• Yanegiken Research Center: plans to market a rack-less frame for use with residential metal roofs this autumn

• Monthly sales volume

• Overview of various happenings such as dates of financial report announcements, schedules for training and seminars