Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) is currently assessing the progress of solar installations above 400kW in size that were approved for development in fiscal 2013.

It will decide at the end of August whether to cancel 22 uncompleted projects.

In addition, developers of approximately 330 approved projects must show that they have obtained land and equipment for their projects by the end of this month, or risk having their FIT authorisations cancelled.