Comments on: Japanese Solar Industry Soaring http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/04/japanese-solar-industry-soaring/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 12:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Russell http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/04/japanese-solar-industry-soaring/#comment-164882 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 22:55:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=52475#comment-164882 This article appears to say 3.8GW in Q1

http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/japan-poised-to-be-worlds-largest-solar-market-58471

]]> By: Bob_Wallace http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/04/japanese-solar-industry-soaring/#comment-164849 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:49:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=52475#comment-164849 Japan has a lot of pump-up hydro storage. Left over from its nuclear days.

You can’t incorporate a lot of nuclear into the grid without also installing a lot of storage. Reactors are not dispatchable and it is necessary to move unneeded power from off-peak to peak demand hours. Now all those gigwatts of pump-up can be used with solar and wind.

]]> By: JamesWimberley http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/04/japanese-solar-industry-soaring/#comment-164845 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:20:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=52475#comment-164845 The 7.2 GW of pumped storage is critical for providing the despatchable complement to solar. Japan also has a lot of hydro-geothermal potential, blocked for decades by NIMBY preservationism which is now giving way to necessity. Both resources depend heavily on geography. Japan is also very badly off for wind.

There won’t be a one-size-fits-all solution to despatchable reserves; Australia (flat, dry and sunny) is looking at CSP with storage and EGS geothermal.

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