Applications for the Residential PV Programme for 2004 Fiscal Year closed on February 7 – almost eight weeks early – as requests for funds reached the available annual budget. A total of 61 407 applications were received for the year, consisting of 59 747 systems for private homes, 562 ready-equipped houses (newly built by developers) and almost 1 100 local government (social) houses. This will take the total residential PV system capacity installed in Japan to over 233 MW.

NEDO, the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, approved a further 300 larger scale projects, totalling almost 8,7 MW under the Advanced PV Power Generation Technology, Field Trial. This programme is aimed at encouraging the adoption of new PV technologies and larger systems (above 10 kW) for public and industrial facilities.

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