Solar Frontier helps power Mt. Komekura solar plant in Japan

February 20, 2012
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Solar Frontier provided 10MW of its CIS thin-film solar modules to power the Mt. Komekura Solar Power Plant in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, which started operations on January 27. Shigeaki Kameda, president of Solar Frontier, was in attendance for the plant’s opening celebration.

The facility is being hailed as one of the largest solar plants in Japan. It is operated by both Yamanashi Prefecture and Tokyo Electric Power and expected to produce nearly 12 million kWh of electricity per year.

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