Director-Tiansheng Yan  Katsuhiko Machida  said that the next five years Japan's solar  power will be like the traditional low in general.  He pointed out that if solar  power can be competitive in price, consumers are expected to bring up the results of the rapid growth of the industry. Machida expected around 2010, the use of solar  power in the family since the current tariff will be 47 yen per unit halved to 23 yen, the same as the existing tariffs.
 Sharp this year 2006 3 the end of solar  panels for the revenue forecast 1,500 billion yen the previous year this amount to 1,170 billion yen.  Machida had previously said that the goal in the 2010 fiscal year 2011 3 the end of the company's solar  power industry revenue Elevated to 5,000 billion yen level.

 Sharp 7ÔÂ8 announced today that the company will spend 2 billion yen to expand production capacity solar  panels.  Sharp said in a statement, Katsuragi Plant in Nara Prefecture of solar  panels production line mass production in September period, the annual output of 15 megawatt £Ÿ megawatts.

 Analysts said the high oil prices again and again so that solar  power generation equipment rapidly rising demand. £í£å£ç£á£÷£á£ô£ô£ó¡£ Japanese Economic News last December 29 reported that Sanyo Sharp in order to catch up with the pace of expansion, planned for the next five years to 2010 so far  solar  panels will expand annual production to 1,000 megawatt, megawatts .