The Japanese Government Legislation to Encourage Residents to Use Solar Power

Japan is a great shortage of energy resources of the country, the vast majority of the energy are from abroad. How to ensure that the normal energy supply, the Government of Japan are the successive one of the issues that required attention. Recently, the Japanese government passed a Cabinet meeting aimed at encouraging residents to install solar power generating equipment, the use of clean energy, "energy supply structure sophisticated Act." The Bill stipulates that the residents to install solar power equipment, home after spending the remaining electricity from power companies to 2 times higher than the market price of the acquisition price. The bill has been submitted to Parliament for consideration, expected during the current Congress passed, and begin implementation of the first half of next year.

Last year in July, the Japanese Government formulated the "Building a low carbon society Plan of Action", in accordance with this plan, the Japanese government will be solar power generating capacity in 2020 expanded to the current level of 10 times in 2030 to reach the current level of 40 times. To this end, the Japanese government in January this year, the solar power generating equipment on the installation of each home grants, subsidies amount of solar power generating equipment in accordance with the capacity of the general per kilowatt grants ¥ 70,000. Local governments are also in accordance with their respective cases on the installation of home solar power generation equipment grant basis. Saitama Prefecture (Note: Japan's County of the province of our country quite) some city grants will have 100,000 or even ¥ 200,000.

The Japanese government has recently introduced the "tectonic energy supply sophisticated Act," certain people in the industry said that it would further encourage residents to install solar power generating equipment or solar water heaters, the use of clean solar energy.

In Japan, the installation of a standard solar power generating equipment generally required to invest ¥ 2,300,000, about 161,000 yuan, under normal circumstances, it would be 20 years or so in order to recover the cost. Japanese government's new requirement, that is, by the power companies with high-priced acquisition of the remaining residents of solar power electricity, can greatly reduce the cost-recovery cycle, on the popularity of solar power play a catalytic role.

Wako, Saitama City, Nakagawa good tree at home in May last year, the roof is installed on Units 1 3.78 kilowatts of solar power generating equipment, the investment of up to ¥ 2,700,000. And light the city issued him ¥ 100,000 grant. In July last year, generating a total of 454 kilowatts hours, remove from the home after the surplus of electricity per kilowatt-hour price of ¥ 23 sold to Tokyo Electric Power Company. Learning after the introduction of the new policy, Nakagawa very pleased, he said: "I count, the solar power generating equipment for the installation of my investment ¥ 2,700,000 to 20 years to recover the cost of the new policy will allow me to recover the cost of shortening the time 10 years. If the surplus power to ¥ 46 per kilowatt hour sold to power companies, it helped me a lot of. "

Business-to-government also welcomed the new policy. Sharp is Japan's production of solar power generating equipment, one of the big companies. The company said at the Government after the introduction of the new policy, "Solar energy equipment retailers and residents have given much attention lately. We had this year is expected to sell 92,000 sets of solar power generating equipment. The new policy introduced, we estimate that residents of solar power generating equipment demand will increase.