Digital Grid, Vena Power Maniwa Solar Commissioned
- Digital Grid and Vena Energy launch Maniwa Solar Power Station in Okayama—68.6MW AC, 71.7MW DC—targeting 85GWh yearly and a 20-year virtual PPA delivering non-fossil attributes to LY.
Digital Grid and Vena Energy have started operating the Maniwa Solar Power Station in Maniwa City, Okayama Prefecture. The photovoltaic facility has an alternating-current capacity of 68.6 MW and a direct-current capacity of 71.7 MW, with commercial generation beginning Aug. 15, 2026. Built on the site of a former golf course, the plant is expected to produce about 85 GWh annually.
Digital Grid will sell the project’s physical power output into Japan’s wholesale market and will manage generation forecasting and balancing. Environmental attributes will be delivered to LY Corporation via non-fossil certificates under a 20-year virtual power purchase agreement, the first corporate PPA for LY. The project originally received a JPY 11.49 per kWh feed-in tariff in Japan’s sixth solar auction before shifting to a feed-in-premium structure to support the VPP arrangement.
What are Maniwa Solar Station’s capacity, output, and 20-year VPP terms?
- Capacity (Maniwa Solar Power Station)
- AC (inverter/exports): 68.6 MW
- DC (PV array): 71.7 MW
- Expected output
- Average annual generation: ~85 GWh per year
- 20-year VPP terms (virtual power purchase)
- Buyer: LY Corporation
- What’s contracted: the project’s environmental attributes (delivered as non-fossil certificates)
- Contract structure: a 20-year virtual PPA (VPP) supporting LY’s corporate renewable procurement
- Role of the VPP intermediary: Digital Grid manages generation forecasting and balancing while physical electricity is sold into Japan’s wholesale market (i.e., the physical power and the environmental attributes are handled under the arrangement)