Japanese Government Announced It Would Vigorously Popularize The Family Solar Power Generation

The Japanese Government has announced that the family should make great efforts to popularize solar power generation , to 2030, the family users from the current 400,000 to expand about 14 million, equivalent to the total number of households in Japan about 30%.

In order to make the average family can use solar power, the Japanese government decided to set up by Chinese and foreign experts of the international research institutions, specialized in low-cost solar panels of the new research and development and the inclusion in the annual budget of 20 billion yen.

Will be developed by the Government of Japan to improve energy efficiency than 1 ~ 2 times the new solar panels, and in 2030 their costs from the current 46 yen per kilowatt down to 7 yen. The objective is to in 2030 before residential solar power capacity (now 1.3 million kilowatts) expanded to 30 times.

Source: 中国工业报 Feb. 4, 2008