According to the Nikkei Chinese website, large-scale PV panel makers in China are entering the Japanese market one after another because Japan has adjusted its FIT (fixed-price renewable energy purchase system) to meet the demand for low-priced panels for large-scale PV power plants, and Chinese enterprises have found With the arrival of Chinese companies, the Japanese panel makers increasingly difficult situation.Japan or will face the same fate as Germany - the local PV panel companies swept by Chinese enterprises.
Recently, the 8th largest solar panel company in the world, China Orient Risen Energy, entered the Japanese market and set up an office in Tokyo to start selling its own panels to companies operating large-scale photovoltaic power plants.
The biggest advantage of Risen Energy is its price, which is generally only 2/3 of that of Japanese manufacturers in the market.
Wang Hong, president of Oriental Nisshin New Energy Co. Ltd., said he did not mind the prices of Japanese manufacturers because he believes competitors in the Japanese market are overseas-based Chinese manufacturers and because of the large-scale mass production, even with import-related Expenses, the panel price of Nisshin Solar is still significantly lower than Japanese manufacturers.
Dongfang Risen New Energy has assembly plants in Ningbo and other places, with an annual production capacity of 4.5 million kilowatts. In addition, the company also independently produces photovoltaic cells based on basic components. The output of one company is equivalent to 60% of the demand in Japan. Mass production reduces the cost of production. Oriental Nisshin New Energy proposed the goal, and strive to export 300,000 kilowatts of photovoltaic panels to Japan each year.
The world's largest photovoltaic panel company Crystal Energy, the second largest Trina Solar and other Chinese manufacturers have entered the Japanese market a few years ago.According to other Chinese enterprises have taken the first step, Wang Hong said the East Nisshin New Energy will be in the long-term warranty And after-sales service to make distinctions.
China's PV panel is gradually out of the past 'cheap no good goods' image. The world's No. 10 photovoltaic panel business Xi'an Long-based silicon material also began in the spring of 2017 in Japan. The company with high-performance panel to achieve rapid growth, which The panel used a power generation efficiency of about 10% higher than the previous material 'monocrystalline silicon'.
Li Wenxue, president of Xi'an Longji Silicon Materials, visited Japan for the first time in September. He said that the company would use 5% of its sales for R & D every year, and it would not have lost the Japanese technology. The company's current legal person is currently only 5, Fiscal year staff will double, and strive to 2018 in Japan sales of 40 to 50 million kilowatts of photovoltaic panels.
Japan's 2012 launch of renewable energy fixed price acquisition system, the rapid increase in photovoltaic power plants in the next five years, the power purchase price dropped by about half of the PV panel shipments continued to decline year on year, known as the 'photovoltaic Bubble 'grand occasion has ceased to exist.
Japan since the beginning of October, to generate electricity in more than 2000 kilowatts of large-scale photovoltaic power station as the object to start the bidding system, which makes the market environment more severe.Japanese government will no longer be 21 yen per kilowatt (about RMB 1.23 yuan) fixed price of electricity, but to give priority to the lower price of the enterprise issued the relevant certification.Through this move to stimulate business competition, reduce power generation prices.
In this system, the power station to reduce the offer had to compress the cost of photovoltaic panels, Chinese enterprises ushered in business opportunities.
It is reported that the cost of building photovoltaic power plants in Japan is twice that of Europe, and its PV industry has a complicated flow structure and a positive use of the cost of the Japanese panel is also higher.With a higher purchase price, Japan can maintain this high cost System, but because the government to adjust the relevant system, the industry has expressed that 'Japan photovoltaic panels will no longer be favored'.
Until the latter half of the 2000s, Japan also dominated the global photovoltaic panel market, but its market share has been taken away by Chinese companies. Kyocera has shut down its assembly plant in Mie Prefecture, and Shell's Front Frontier has also restructured its Japanese factories Concentrate and hope that 10% of employees will retire early.
However, in the field of residential photovoltaic panels, consumers prefer Japanese brands and local enterprises still enjoy an advantage, but a senior executive of a residential manufacturer said that "only the unique Japanese-made photovoltaic panels such as building materials integrated panels can survive."
In the world in the forefront of the use of renewable energy in Germany is likely to become an example of Japan .2017 May, the German large-scale photovoltaic panel business SolarWorld announced bankruptcy. Once the world's largest photovoltaic panel business in Germany Q-Cells also bankruptcy in 2012, Led by South Korea Hanhua Group's current Q-Cells in Germany has no factories, only the R & D center.
The reason why the bankruptcy of enterprises, because the German market by China-made photovoltaic panels and other Asian low-cost products impact.Is the international competitiveness of the Japanese photovoltaic panels are likely to enter the footsteps of Germany, and even the Japanese domestic market has also been Chinese enterprises go.
