CHINA INSTALLED A WORLD RECORD AMOUNT OF SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAICS (PV) CAPACITY IN 2013. WHILE THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THE COUNTRY WAS THE NUMBER ONE INSTALLER, CHINA HAS LED ALL COUNTRIES IN MAKING PV FOR THE BETTER PART OF A DECADE. China now accounts for 64 percent of global solar panel production-churning out 25,600 megawatts of the nearly 40,000 megawatts of PV made worldwide in 2013-according to data from GTM Research. Five of the top 10 solar panel manufacturing firms in 2013-including Yingli at the top and runner-up Trina-were Chinese companies. Coming in third was Canadian Solar, which produces 90 percent of its modules in China. Two Japanese companies and one each from the United States and Germany rounded out the top 10. (See data.) As demand for increasingly affordable solar power continues to climb around the world, GTM Research projects that China's annual solar panel output will double to 51,000 megawatts by 2017, representing close to 70 percent of global production at that time. Beijing no doubt had such a quick industry ramp-up in mind when in May 2014 it announced a new national PV capacity goal: 70,000 megawatts of installed PV by 2017, up from 18,300 megawatts at the end of 2013. To put that in perspective, if it meets that goal China will add more solar electricity-generating capacity in four years than the entire world had in place in early 2011. For more information, see the latest Solar Indicator from Earth Policy Institute, at www.earth-policy.org. (c) 2014
Japanese Administrate Campaign to Preference Geothermal Order (Chicago Tribune)
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The Japanese legislature confer on rearrange the gale feed-in tariff system, which requires power companies to tell electricity generated by solar power and other renewable energy sources at certain prices, to make utilities buy untouchable electricity from geothermal power generation, sources imaginary.
Having the status of maintaining its policy of promoting the use of renewable energy, the legislature is uncertain to true the system's gale overemphasis on solar power, to mitigate the increase in intensity of electricity rates by lowering the feed-in tariffs for solar power.
Geothermal power is imaginary to be bargain basement priced in costing and regular in supply.
The legislature plans to levitate planning on the learn Wednesday at the blind date of a subgroup of the Warning Committee for Unrefined Material goods and Energy below the Prudence, Put back and Corporation Ministry, the sources imaginary. It intends to harden on a final emerge by the end of this go out with.
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This morning the Solar Impulse airplane embarked upon the next leg of its sun-powered journey across the United States. The solar-powered giant has already traveled from the San Francisco Bay Area to Arizona, and at 5am it took off from Phoenix's Sky Harbor Airport en route to Dallas. The record-breaking flight marks a pivotal point in the team's attempt to be the first to fly across the the country without using a single drop of fuel.
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