Honda began exporting solar cells

It is reported that Honda will work through local solar vendors and residential construction business cooperation, the wholly-owned subsidiary Honda Soltec solar cells produced are exported to Germany and other places. Currently, Honda Soltec's annual production capacity equivalent to 27,500 kilowatts, and is planning to expand production capacity to meet the export business.

   As an important part of the new business, Honda began to get involved since last October field of solar cells. As Japan's domestic demand growth stagnated momentum, while Europe and other places that established the system of support for solar power, the market is expanding rapidly, Honda decided to vigorously explore the overseas market, the export business of solar cells on track assoon as possible.

Market share, about the entire solar thermal utilization 20-50%. According to the European Commission issued the "Energy Future: Renewable Energy," White Paper, by 2010, the EU will install 100 million square meters of solar collectors, solar heating system, which will account for 19 million square meters. China has the world's largest solar panel manufacturers thermal market, conservatively estimated at about 40% of the world in which solar hot water system is almost 100%.

In recent years, China's building energy consumption declining heating, solar thermal products performance and increasing solar heating gradually attention has been paid, in Beijing and other places have been built some solar heating projects, such as Beijing Tsinghua Solar corporate offices, Beijing Solar Energy Research The office building, Beijing Pinggu new rural village residences. Some of these items using U-shaped pipe vacuum tube collectors, some using heat pipe vacuum tube collectors, others use flat-plate collectors, system design different, have different features, and more from self-designed solar thermal companies installation, mostly without the involvement of architectural design units.

   Compared with the situation abroad, our technology is relatively backward, solar heating system is designed mostly remained at the level of simple estimates, not mature, complete or software design methods, while China's energy situation was worsening, and solar energy resources than to be rich in many European countries, therefore, an urgent need of solar heating technology has been further developed.