Google doesn't help me, but my wife often tells me that our area (along the coast of Suruga bay in Shizuoka prefecture) has the most annual sunshine in all of J

Google doesn't help me, but my wife often tells me that our area (along the coast of Suruga bay in Shizuoka prefecture) has the most annual sunshine in all of Japan (I won't argue with her ;-) ). Definitely the number of solar installations here is dramatically rising. Practically every day I see a new one. 5 years ago it was wind turbines (it's also insanely windy here most of the time...) Shizuoka is home to a very large amount of car and motorcylce manufacturing and after the the Tohoku earthquake they got creative with scheduling workers based on available power. My understanding is that the big manufacturers made a rota took turns using the power. If they manage to get a very large amount of solar power running (which it definitely looks like they are aiming for), I wonder if they will end up scheduling work based on the weather report.