SOLVISTO

• Discourse

• How should we look into the Japanese market which is undergoing major changes?
• We interview 6 major overseas cell and module manufacturers

• -The subsidy system for the home which the local governments will set up for 2015, Part II
• -Deal with the restraints on output right away! Support system for storage batteries to start public offering in March

• -The energy mix as of 2030, to be set at in May, a ratio of solar power generation of 7%
• -JPEA, “A low voltage solar power generation system over 10kW and under 50kW”
• Lectures on technology held in Tokyo and Osaka

• NEDO “Power to Gas Technology” trials to start this year, with 14 organizations participating, focus on trials of hydrogen originating in renewable energy in Hokkaido

• -Solar Frontier: signs a contract with Konar Energy to supply CIS thin film solar cells on the order of 23MW
• -Canadian Solar: sells off its City Lights power station
• -SEMI: For the 4th quarter of 2014, its PV facility BB ratio was 0.68%, with sales for the year down by 13%
• -Neo Solar Power: enters into a technology agreement with DuPont
• -Yingli Green Energy: constructs a 50MW power plant in Hebei
• -German government: implements Step 1 of its trial bidding system
• New Delhi: begins selling power from residential solar system
• -LDK Solar: finishes provisional procedures
• -Tesla Motors: enters the fuel cell business for home use
• -EPIA: Expresses a strong desires free and fair trade between China and Europe at SNEC
• -National Institute for Materials Science: perovskite solar cells reach an official conversion ratio of 15%

• -Idemitsu Kosan and Showa Shell Oil: The large TOB gone by the wayside or been just put on hold?
• -Price of crude oil plunges! Solar Frontier says “Not linked to this for the time being”
• -Yole: for the power electronics global market its forecast calls for a growth to \17 billion in 2020

• Rises to 70℃ in 100 seconds, reduction in the size of solar power generation systems with a highly efficient solar heat exchange film coated with beads solidified with metal nano particles

• -Sharp: holds a meeting to announce new products, a new module to go on sale in June with a conversion ratio of 19.1%
• -Toshiba: begins trials of a hybrid PV and hydrogen electric power storage system
• -Eco Future: expands marketing of design solar panels
• -Kyocera: begins verification trials for fast response for demand for use in buildings

• Ingli Green Energy Japan Kyushu office moves

• -Kyocera: puts on sale Energy Storage Solution in Germany
• -Ablytek Japan: puts a new small 150W solar cell module on sale
• -Panasonic: begins marketing software which shows consumption and condition of energy
• -PanaHome: begins marketing a new “Zero Eco” standard specification smart house
• -LIXIL: puts a new single crystal 270W panel and new power converter with a controller installed to suppress rise in voltage

• Eiwat: President Masaaki Shibata Special high facility designs have piled up, requests for expansion of facilities increase from manufacturers overseas, putting effort into its own mega solar facilities too

• Utilization of hydrogen from a biomass, the “Smart Hydrogen Supply Chain” promoted by an engineering college at a university. We interview Guest Researcher Masaru Ichikawa of Kogakuin University (Honorary Professor of Hokkaido University)

• Thermal power station: focusing on liberalization of retail sale of electric power, waiting list of new designs for large, coal fired thermal power stations which are increasing in number

• Overview of PV modules in Japan

• Monthly volume of electricity produced

• Overview of events such as the dates of the announcement of financial results from the end of May ton the beginning of June, dates of the holding of training sessions and seminars