Kyocera

Japanese PV and technology company Kyocera has seen its income drop by ¥20 billion (USD250 million) to ¥253 billion (USD325 million) in the first half of its current fiscal year due to a steep decline in sales of solar products outside Japan.

Kyocera Corporation along with Marubeni Corporation and Wakachiku Construction Co., Ltd. have collaborated to supply a solar power generating system to the Majuro Hospital in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, a part of Micronesia.

The announcement that Chinese company Alex Solar will build a massive 1-GW solar farm in central China’s Jinchang city, coupled with the rush by several Chinese solar firms to fill the nuke void in Japan indicates that China’s solar industry is still looking to a bright future. Beleaguered by US trade sanctions, feed-in tariff cuts in Europe, collapsing photovoltaic (PV) panel prices, massive global over-supply of panels and a string of gloomy financial results by its once glowing solar stars, China’s solar industry would, by all appearances, be on the ropes.

Japanese conglomerates Kyocera Corporation, IHI Corporation and Mizuho Corporate Bank today announced that they will join forces to construct a 70-MW solar power plant in southern Japan and to further explore a business model for utility-scale solar power generation, according to the Kyodo News.

Japanese electronics giant Kyocera has completed a new solar cell manufacturing plant in the Chinese city of Tianjin, raising it China production to 360MW per annum.