Sonnedix begins commercial op of 14-MWp solar farm in Japan

• Global independent power producer (IPP) Sonnedix Power Holdings Ltd has revealed that its 14-MWp solar farm in Japan reached commercial operation date (COD) in September.

The Sonnedix Hirono plant is the business's sixth project in Japan to start commercial operation in 2022, the IPP team claimed on Wednesday.

Sonnedix employed Juwi Shizen Energy to function as the EPC service provider on this project, as well as supervise of operation as well as upkeep. JA Solar components and also TMEIC inverters were picked for the plant.

The solar farm lies in the town of Hirono in Iwate prefecture. It is expected to create 15.8 GWh of electrical power per year throughout the very first year of procedure, according to Sonnedix.

Japanese electric energy Tohoku Electric Power Co Inc (TYO:9506) will certainly off-take the manufacturing output of the plant with a power purchase contract (PPA) under the feed-in-tariff regimen for 18 years, Sonnedix added.

Today, the group's unit Sonnedix Japan takes care of 24 solar plants with a total capacity of 433 MWp and also 62 MWp of projects incomplete.