Solvist Vol.35 （February 2014）
Consumption Tax Countermeasures
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PV companies nationwide have wanted to finish delivery before the fiscal...
- Are the measures to cope with the consumption tax hike really perfect?!:"Requests to bring deliveries set from April ahead of schedule are illegal."
Flash report on policies regarding PV systems
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An opportunity to pitch depending on what happens with the subsidies of the regional governments
Internal rate of return (IRR) 3.2% strike zone
The time for the revision of the buying price has come for this year...
- We gathered information concerning the status of 4,699 PV power stations effectively "out in the cold":Of these, for 1,643 power stations authorization could be cancelled, for a total of 7.4GW
Keeping an eye on trends
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- Sales agencies proposing expansion of facilities of over 10kW to their users
Sales of surplus electricity, looking into a 20 year system Going beyond the 10kW, jumping to a 1.4 fold increase in profit
Company focus:Kyocera
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- Over the age of 40The PV business rules of top runner Kyocera
Although hefty production of 1.2GW goes on, real market maturity is still far off.
Ｓｐｅｃｉａｌ Ｉｎｔｅｒｖｉｅｗ
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- Nobuo Kitamura, senior executive officer, head of the Solar Energy Department
"We are sticking to cells produced in Japan, and getting ready for an expansion of the market for home use."
"We are putting together the most suitable schemata for local production and local consumption with PV power generation as the lynchpin,"
Will mono crystals be looked into to meet the requirements for improved efficiency!?
Trends in technology
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- Third Party Testing organization Chemitox
- Proportional integral derivative
- Confirming of symptoms with n-type single crystals containing antibodies
News around the world
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- The Chinese Ministry of Trade applies a duty of up to 57% on US and Korean made silicon
- The US Department of Commerce begins a survey of anti dumping, compensating tariffs for sells produced in China and Taiwan
- Tokyo Electron withdraws from the thin film facility business
- IDEC and Schneider: the 2 power converter companies form a business alliance, and complete a plant in Hyogo Prefecture with a capacity of 6.7MW
- Sun Glow: Sells power converters to Japan, amounting to 3MW
- Jinko Solar is looking into the possibility of establishing a new company to manage its mega solar business
- Sharp terminates module production at its plant in the US. Its electric power generation business in Japan exceeds 90MW
- Hanhwa Solar One establish an engineering, procurement, and construction company in conjunction with an investment company
ＮＥＷＳ ＰＩＣＫ ＵＰ
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- 1. Hitachi expects shipment for 2013 400MW six times over the previous year
- 2. Omron the largest domestic PCS producer complete develop next generation one
Safety
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- Huge involvement in maintenance of PV electric power stations
PV examination camera, realization of PV examination power - Taking photographs with a camera outside the NPC panel, cracks and PID irregularities detected right away
Solar Works (Yokohama), with its examination capacity, examination of modules discerning the value of the power station assets
Monthly Solvisto index
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- Stock market status of the stock of PV related companies
- Status of modules in Japan
- Plans for installation
- Trends in the number of units delivered
News flash regarding distribution
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- Exsol expands its disaster guarantee
- The PV Japan Planner Association: Its sales seminar has been approved as an occupational training school in Osaka Prefecture
- Shoden (Tokyo), regarding sales for this term, anticipates over \2 billion for its PV business
- Eiwat anticipates sales of \2 billion for the current term
- Suntech Power Japan appoints 3 senior managing directors
- Mediotec puts on sale a new, remote controlled solar cell power generation monitor for industrial use, aiming at sales of 3,000 units for the first year
- Alba Tech opens a branch in Sendai
- Eko Instruments holds its 3rd Insolation Seminar, puts its new IV Checker on the market
- Hanwha, Q-Cells Japan, the first overseas panel manufacturer to open a branch in Nagoya, transferring its Osaka branch
- Takashima obtains a patent for its smart rack
The solar cell preacher
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- gremzsolar, Kosuke Kato, President
Major franchise of Kyocera Solar concentrates on solar cells for the home, attracting customers though stores, with sales reaching the level of around \3 billion
New records
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- Toshiba puts the highly efficient half module SPR-125NE-WHT-J on the market, creating a series together with the 250MW panel
- Omron: multi strings type R Series, and simultaneously the KP59R-J4 and KP48R-J3, having upgraded functions of the conventional K and M Series go on sale, aiming at total sales of over 1 million units in three years
- Delta Electronics aims at selling 30,000 units annually of its RPIH4J, an outdoor, salt erosion resistant 4kW power converter in 3 years
- Panasonic, in its HIT series for industrial use, puts 2 new products on sale, the optimal size HIT290A and the very strong HIT120A
- Sanyo Electric markets 2 power conditioners, the insulated type 10kW SUNUPSP73J and the 5.5kW『SUNUPSP61B for low voltage
PV event calendar
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Solvisto monitor
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- Monthly amount of electric power generated
