Solar cells in Japan under the Japan's economic growth to support the technology

News May 10, the Japan Economy, Trade and Industry recently decided to put solar cells will support economic growth in Japan's position of technical fields, and actively promote its technical research and development, the expansion of Japan products in the global share; amendment "in Japan popularize and promote the domestic use of solar energy action plan "in order to enhance public facilities for the use of solar energy.

Japan Patent Office (JPO) Statistics 2000 to-2006 in Japan, the United States, Europe, China, South Korea in five countries and regions, the total solar cell patent applications from Japan amounted to 5,449 applications, accounting for 68.4%; which At present, the most popular applications for silicon solar cells reached 75% -81%, far ahead in Europe (8% -11%) and the United States (5% -7%). In other words, in response to global warming green energy - solar cell area, Japan is still the world's largest number of patented technology. However, a more universal type of thin solar panels a new generation of materials technology - an organic semiconductor solar cells, originated from Japan, the United States and European patent applications were 45%, 29% and 19%, and European research institutions in the important journal published papers in the field of 126, is Japan (29) more than 4 times. JPO accordingly that the Japan area of organic semiconductor technology research and development of solar cells has lagged behind Europe and the United States.

According to relevant information, Economy, Trade and Industry in March 2009 on the Japan scale of the next solar industry forecast: the current environmental protection has been widely favored energy background, the Japan production of solar cells will be rapid growth in product sales to the industry in 2020 will expand to 10 times lower than the current, amounting to 10 trillion yen (about 7,040 billion yuan), the staff size from the current 1.2 million to 11 million people.

Source: windosi.com May. 10, 2009