Netherlands' Nuon in three-way deal to solar

at over $200,000

and shipment will be made

in March.

trapping

gas, rose 1.1%

10.2%

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pipeline.

a booster

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NASDA tests satellite

the modules

cover nearly

the entire

Each of the 765 paneh

900 mm. This is the first time that PV modules

of the

have covered

such a large area in Japan.

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The National

the

Japan (NASDA) has full-scale tested a Tsubasa

module

desert to the city of Qurayat.

experimental

equivalent

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Japanese power retailers sell new energy

Initial

Ministry

and Industry retailers

(METI)

from

amounts

of Economy,

testing

2003

to

sell

of energy generated

by solar, wind

and other renewable sources,

according

to a

watched

to see how they will function

METI

aims

submit,

to obrain

cabinet

to the ongoing measures

power utilities,

approval

Diet session,

to

a bill on

for the use of new energy ministry

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oficials

legislation

by

said.

is aimed

suppiy

to 3.2%

efforts

to attain

in fiscal 2010,

as part of Japan’s

its greenhouse

gas reduction

Requiring

an annual

pany, the ministry

use

target

set by each com-

will urge or order failing firms

to meet these targets

and fine them

up to Ylm

if they fail to comply. retailers,

increase

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types

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of

other

energy

terrestrial

than

estimates

to

will be required

renewable

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heat,

sources: water

oil’ - presumed

to

and

as biomass

and waste. METI energy

use in the coming

for annual

will

electricity

effective

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their

targets

new energy

from

as MET1

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government

other

passing

radiation

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been

satellite,

placed

through

in

is 10 times greater

geostationary

orbit.

Testing

Japanese

construction

than in

continues

way

to

clean

soil, using bacteria

general

the

that

aim

and

by

oxygen

compressors. the

compressors helping

made

1,000

kwh

of

oil-

more data on the is to

market

plans

to ratify

that

this year,

the

requires

gases by 6% from

1990

in mineral carbon

Club, School

The

first

Evergreen

strain

oil and can

to

nutrients and

air

aeration.

using

solar

The panels,

to save costs.

Photovoltaic system award Kobe Steel’s photovoltaic

the New Energy Foundation

Chairman

Kawasaki

installed

The second installed

Both

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of heat-

Kobe, western Japan.

were

(New Energy

Development Industrial

high The

school’s electricity and

jointly

funded

and Industrial

Organisation)

with

Technology

as

part

of

its

Use PV Field Test Program.

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Prize

Netherlands’ Nuon in three-way deal to solar

roof

80%

of the Half.

of

770 m2

at the school.

emissions

about

roof

PV

in the Prefecture

will be used, in part, for lighting

systems

NED0

basis.

is one of the largest

at a school

of the

air

pumping.

the system on a turnkey

Gymnastic

as the latest data show CO, consumption,

sprinkler

part

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from energy

water

Covers

will

Minami

that will reduce

bill for lighting,

The PV array of approximately

Yamaguchi

of

US. It was

of PV modufes to the walls and

of the Dai-Ichi

198

on the clubhouse

Chiba.

application

period. measures

City, Chiha

incorporates

system

selected for the prize because of an innovative

energy

Kyoto

3037.

system has received

from the New Energy Foundation,

City,

clean electricity

and

generated

improve

are powered

conditioning,

air conditioning

system

Uji

in Yachiyo

club’s utility

in

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the country

of

are activated

in

system

the

them with certain

Co Ltd,

has delivered and

Solar’s PV panels

over

a sprinkler

Kinki Co Ltd.

Prefecture, Japan.

necessary,

Enhanced

Homes

Construction

and a 70 kW PV system to Yachiyo

bioremediation

soil, the bacteria

using

as a

sites.

dioxide

To perform

is

a 20 kW PV rooftop system to

are

levels in the 20082012

Misawa

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systems

makes use of a natural

oil into

the

firms

helps cut

Kawasaki delivers

Shoin High

generated. pact

energy

tpa. The building

Boeki, and Kobe Steel received

Eco-Tech

Prefecture,

generators,

certificates,

from

of 25 electric

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Uji

still needs to

old industrial

thrive

course of months. contaminated

the order through

commissioned

and solar

to petrochemical-related

Ueki’s technique

decompose

contractor

tests and collect but

of bacteria

owned by Minami

of 76 kW,

requirements

by 10 metric

roof to generate

The midsize

technology

power

output

Evergreen Solar’s Japanese marketing partner,

group, Ueki Corp has

a low-cost

contaminated

run outdoor

output

has a total

Kawasaki Heavy Industries,

developed

technique,

CO,

system

an

the Van Allen

Bioremediation by solar powered compressors

into

either

retailers,

will issue

international

to cut greenhouse

however,

by each firm.

for two years, for every

renewable

for new

with their own facilities,

from

surplus

exchangeable

Japan

achieve

new energy

or buying

targets

eight years as the basis

target calculations

generating buying

normal

base. has

the soil by supplying will set the aggregate

Firms

kg,

means of redeveloping

METI

to 100 by FY 2010,

six

Belt, where

how

electricity

and will send the data to

ground

orbit

and

solar batteries’

consumes, 480

make

errors

generators.

target under the Kyoto protocol.

Power

memories

agency’s

elliptical

in space.

will keep track of how many

of the built-in

weighing

parts are being closely

at tripling

the fiscal I 999 ratio of new energy to total power

($8000)

the

are

for one year.

draft bili.

special

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low-cost

memories

normally.

much

certain

the satellite’s

working

the semiconductor

plans to oblige power

FY

shows

semiconductor

The satellite

Trade

Agency of

satellite launched by its second

commercial

the sateliite The Japanese

Space Development

wall

is 1,035 mm by

the

of about

water

floors, surface.

and two top lights are

from the third to the ninth

from

a distance

brings

length

system covers three walls in a

wall arrangement

on the roof. Running

center. Solar panels will the

The PV module curtain

across

wells,

The

to stand

of 9 deep-water

powerhouse,

along

in FY 2000

above the fiscal 1990 level.

building

in

pay

production

exchange,

Green

Lake Metroparks

Mountain

Energy

of solar panel electricity

for at the

park agency’s Lake Farmpark in Kirtland.

April 2002

energy construction

firm

with

87,000

participants,

will buitd a 25 kW solar electric generating

array

50%

are

income

A Netherlands-based

at Lake

Farmpark.

includes

less expensive

actual builder Andy

Lake

Baker,

Lake

Renewable

benefit

Public

as well.

Farmpark

a Dutch

as 28,000

energy

firm

is not in the business

energy,

the firm turns

to Texas-based Green

Green

Mountain

reduced

cooperated

elsewhere,

Lake Metroparks

Nuon in

will pay Green

which

California

ultimately

infused

system.

The

as $1,400

through

into parks

the general system

annually

the three-way

and is

charge

bill

Mexico

customers

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Japan’s 2002 (METI) support

that sell electricity

($284.9m)

through

on

in fol

renewable

energy

The

of these,

who

programs,

capacity,

and

Power

Angeles is ranked

1981

Department

1985

system

at ‘123.62bn.

1989

which

rising to las

slightly

in 2002 tc

for

to

outpace Not

its Y2.4Obn

entrepreneur:

has climbed the

1998

1

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in the same figure,

for industrial

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use in 2002

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put at Y4.5Obn.

1991

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April 2002

double

field test program

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customers:

1987

system

and cost

of

first for total

1983

PV systems

at V14.7bn,

new energy

Y5.39bn

but Los

subsidy

introduce

1998’s

premiums. The

of this goes on introductior

of residential

new

participation,

installed

amount

Y23.20bn. effective pricing’

customer

total

last year and W5.4Pbn

year’s Y23.5 1bn and dropping

from

for funding WP.49bn

in 1998 was budgeted

renewable energy sources.

based

and Industry

has risen steadily from a 1998

f36.65bn

Energy Laboratory

‘green

fat

for PV from the

Trade

Co Ltd shows that the request

has updated its popular top-ten lists

called

each

drawn up by Resources Total System

The National

sometimes

and

Company

fiscal budget

of Economy,

A healthy

most

District

Japan’s 2002 budget requests

and promotion

the

lowest Electric

: http://~.nrel.gov/soiar/

the coming fiscal year.

ranks

Utility

Power

Solar’s popular top 10

NREL

the

just a cent extra per kWh

2000 to Y61.29bn

(NREL)

for

Roseville

I

Ministry

project.

of utility programs

tie

save as

in its electric

Renewable

Austin

a

electricity

should

capacity,

utilities

Municipal

For more information

friendly

the solar panels produce

of its

green power.

other

Mountain

7%

and solar power.

Baker said.

rate for the environmentally

electricity

and

Moorhead

has

power

is a three-way

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that chore over

Mountain.

have

similar ventures

much

wind

There premiums.

of selling

up

up.

and Sacramento

or buying

grid

signed

installed

annually. Because Nuon

of percentage,

in Minnesota

about

signed

Energy, Texas takes first place with 76.9 MW of

co

of energy

although

customers,

For new renewable by

is expected

kW

In terms

Service

customers

administrator

the array, which

as much

at no cost,

costs. The panel’s

will be built this spring

Ventures,

that will construct produce

energy

will earn income

said the solar panels Nuon

Metroparks’

low

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1995

1997

1999

2001

Year

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