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Im very surprised that Japan is so high up, considering how tiny it is.
They have the most solar power per area as far as I understand it. So good utilization!
They turned off there nuclear after Fukushima, fossil fuels have always been expensive for them so solar makes a lot of sense.
How about Germany and the UK?
Because Japan is larger than either.
Its very slightly larger than Germany, but its also very fractured and 50% more densely populated.
The latter seems like all the more reason to have more people per km² buying solar panels, no?
Also, more divided than Germany? How so?
Well it's made up of four distinct islands in a sort of stretched out chain whereas Germany is more a big block of land in the middle of a continent (depending on your preferred definition of what that is).