Tomas Kåberger, executive chair of the Japan Renewable EnergyFoundation (JREF), warns that the country’s bid to transform its power mixfollowing the Fukushima disaster could be hampered by costs that are highcompared to other economies.

Japan has successfully ignited a PV installationboom with the launch of a feed-in tariff (FIT) programme, adding 1.33GW ofsolar capacity between April 2012 and January this year.