Comments on: 24.9 GW of Renewable Energy Capacity for Japan by 2016?

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:58:00 +0000

” so Japan might do for the price of energy storage what Germany did for solar panels – create enough demand to massively lower their cost in just a few years. ”

— i’m very curious about this / hoping to see this happen.

By: 20 GW of Geothermal Power Potential in Japan

20 GW of Geothermal Power Potential in Japan — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:23:39 +0000

[…] huge clean energy push is taking place in Japan, led by very high feed-in tariffs. 24.9 GW of solar and wind power could be developed by as early as 2016, according to a […]

By: Ronald Brak

Ronald Brak — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:30:00 +0000

Actually, given their high feed in tariff they may exceed their target. There is enough difference between the feed in tariff and the cost of buying electricity from the grid to encourage home energy storage, so Japan might do for the price of energy storage what Germany did for solar panels – create enough demand to massively lower their cost in just a few years.

One problem is that Japan doesn’t have as much roof space per person as say Australia or the US, but they also use less electricity per person. And they are going to replace a lot of their building stock over the next decade or so, which will give the opportunity to build many roofs that are optimized for solar panels.