Japan

Narita International Airport Corp (NAA), driver of the airport in Japan's Chiba prefecture, is planning a 180-MW solar project to be created by a new 50/50 joint venture with gas utility Tokyo Gas Co Ltd (TYO:9531).

Japanese vehicle parts manufacturer Bridgestone Corp (TYO:5108) has actually started the operation of roof solar systems with a combined capacity of 5.8 MW at two tyre production plants.

Clean Energy Connect (CEC), which is also a part of the Itochu group, has inked a business power purchase agreement (cPPA) to offer renewable resource to Amazon for twenty years. Amazon will certainly get green power at a set price.

Japanese machine tools maker DMG Mori Seiki Co Ltd (TYO:6141) has actually begun power generation from a 5.4-MW portion of a 13.4-MW roof solar plant it is installing at its Iga Campus located in Mie prefecture, south-central Japan.

TotalEnergies has commissioned a 51MW solar power plant in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan. With nearly 100,000 high-efficiency solar panels, the plant will provide enough clean and reliable electricity to power nearly 20,000 homes.

Kioxia Group is raising the usage of renewable energy by installing large-scale solar power generation systems for the first time at its Kitakami Plant and Yokkaichi Plant.

16MW Sodegaura PV facility has been financed by investment banks ING and also Societe Generale

Japanese real estate developer Mitsui Fudosan Co Ltd (TYO:8801) announced last week it has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) to deliver a 2.6-MW solar rooftop system for Hiroshima International Airport Co Ltd

Japanese firm Sugino Machine Ltd introduced that a 1-MW solar system was mounted on the rooftops of its manufacturing facilities and also the heat treatment building at the Namekawa factory, in Japan's Toyama prefecture.

Japanese electronic components maker Hokurikudenki announced recently it has actually mounted a 1-MW solar system on the roofs as well as on a still part of the land at its manufacturing facility in Japan's Toyama prefecture.

Japanese renewables designer Pacifico Energy KK has finished the 77-MWdc Banshu Mega Solar Power Plant project in Japan's southern-central Kansai region.

Japanese ceramics firm NGK Insulators Ltd (TYO:5333) plans to install concerning 40 MW of solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays at its making sites by fiscal 2025.

Dutch offshore PV professional SolarDuck B.V., together with teamwork partners, is developing a demonstrator for the use of offshore photovoltaics in Tokyo Bay.

TRICOR Packaging & Logistics AG, a subsidiary of Japanese maker and representative of paper as well as packaging products Rengo Co Ltd (TYO:3941), will certainly set up a 5.6-MW rooftop and ground-mounted solar system in southerly Germany.

The new regulation will certainly need around 50 major designers and building contractors to guarantee that their residences having an area of 2,000 square metres or 21,500 square feet to be fitted with photovoltaic panels. The city government of Tokyo metropolitan wishes to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions in the city to half by the end of this decade.