Showa Shell to boost solar business

Japan’s Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. expects alternative energy to become increasingly important in Japan and is ramping up its solar power business, President and Director Jun Arai said. “The jury is still out on what the dominant form of energy will be in the future, but we predict solar power to be paramount, given its steady technological development. We have already brought a solar cell factory online in Miyazaki Prefecture, and we plan to expand our firm’s output capacity in the future,” he said (December 3, 2008)