Japan’s Kagawa government in western Japan has announced that Kokusai Kogyo Holdings and Orix Corp will each build a solar power plant, to start operations in July and September. The plants will have a capacity of 2MW.
Japan’s new feed-in tariff has attracted the aerial surveying contractor, Kokusai Kogyo and leasing company Orix. Electricity output generated by the plants will be sold to regional power provider, Shikoku Electric Power.
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Japan is keen to increase renewable power in the wake of the radiation crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant.