Japan´s New National R&D Program for Photovoltaics

Author

Sakata, Isao ; Tanaka, Yukao ; Koizawa, Kazuaki

Author_Institution

New Energy & Ind. Technol. Dev. Organ., Kawasaki

Volume

1

fYear

2006

fDate

38838

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) will start two new national R&D programs for photovoltaics in fiscal year (FY) 2006: "R&D for Next Generation PV Systems" and "PV System Technology for Mass Deployment, Phase II". The duration of these new programs is four-years. These programs have been created with reference to PV Roadmap Toward 2030 (PV2030), which was established in 2004 with the aim of providing a long-term perspective of PV R&D in Japan. We will briefly describe the outline of this roadmap and discuss NEDO\´s role, taking account of the fact that the PV market in Japan is rapidly expanding. The targets and details of these new R&D programs will also be shown

Keywords

photovoltaic power systems; research and development; 4 yrs; Japan; NEDO; New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization; PV market; long-term PV roadmaps; national R&D program; photovoltaic power generation; photovoltaics; Costs; Energy resources; Government; Manufacturing; Photovoltaic cells; Photovoltaic systems; Power generation; Power generation economics; Research and development; Solar power generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, Conference Record of the 2006 IEEE 4th World Conference on

Conference_Location

Waikoloa, HI

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0017-1

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0017-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279315

Filename

4059547