Japan, in 2009 the size of solar cell market will be more than 300 billion yen

News June 11, in Japan, a latest survey report shows that as a result of the Government of Japan to actively promote the popularization of home solar power systems, together with the decline in the cost of materials, the effect of volume production will also accelerate the decline in the price of solar power generation system, solar energy in Japan in 2009 battery will be a substantial market growth in 2008 from ¥ 176,100,000,000 growth of 82% to ¥ 319,900,000,000.

Japan's solar power generation in accordance with the Association on June 3 released statistics show that of Japan in 2009 January-March shipments of solar cells as global 244.281MW, fell 11 percent year-on-year. Deterioration in exports due to economic downturn led to the demand for the European market by 19% in the year to 171.013MW, which in Europe by 21.0 percent, also in North America by 2.7%. However, in Japan, because Japan's domestic solar power generation equipment import subsidy system in January 2009 on the road, driven out of the volume of domestic demand in Japan by 18% to 73.268MW.

The report also pointed out that in future, such as amorphous silicon thin film solar cells will gradually increase the proportion is expected in Japan this year's film solar cell market will be 10.5 billion yen the previous year 90% growth to 200 billion yen.

Jun. 11, 2009