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seriously degraded and the tender system may not allow Japan to reach the levels of de
ployment seen in the past 5 years. In the united States, President donald Trump has imple
mented trade measures as of January 2018 on solar panels coming from China, malaysia,
Canada, and mexico. These tariffs will be a big hit to the uS solar industry, with significant
impact across the entire solar value chain leading to a decrease in demand, manufacturing
and loss of jobs. due to these trade measures, it will be hard to predict the united States role
in the coming 5 years; it could be anything from close to 100 GW to less than 10 GW.
Fig. 24.5 outlines the forecasts of the top solar PV markets globally based on both total
capacity/mW and political prospects. Together, the combined outputs of these nations
FIGURE 24.5 Top global PV markets “prospects.” Top global markets does not include European countries. For top
European markets, see Fig. 19. SolarPower, Europe 2017, p. 11.
