German manufacturer Hanwha Q CELLS is to supply modules to what is said to be Japan’s largest solar power plant.
The company said it had already begun shipment of its modules for the 82MW project in the coastal industrial area of Oita.
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The project is being taken forward by Tokyo-based Marubeni Corporation and is expected to have an annual output of around 87,000,000kWh.
Power generated from the plant will be sold to Kyushu Electric Power Company under a 20-year power purchase agreement.
Since the launch of its feed-in tariff last year, Japan’s solar market has been booming and is forecast by Bloomberg New Energy to be the world’s largest in 2013.
