Thursday, November 7, 2013

Solar-Hungry Japan Opens Its Biggest Plant Ever

By Pete Danko Japan this week celebrated the opening of the largest solar photovoltaic power plant in the nation, a spectacular 70-megawatt installation in Kagoshima City on a big plot of largely undeveloped land that juts out into Kagoshima Bay.  The Kagoshima Nanatsujima Mega Solar Power Plant, which was developed by a group of companies headed up by Kyocera, is yet another sign of Japan’s rising solar profile. In September, market tracker Solarbuzz reported that Japan had exceeded 10 gigawatts in installed solar PV capacity, becoming the fifth country to do so (after Germany, Italy, China and the U.S.).
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