Toyota Tsusho, partners to mount 1.7-MW rooftop solar system in Japan

• Japanese trading firm Toyota Tsusho Corp (TYO:8015), local energy Tohoku Electric Power Co Inc (TYO:9506) and conglomerate Tokyu Land (TYO:3289) will join pressures to supply a 1.77-MW solar roof option for Sendai International Airport Co Ltd

The carport photovoltaic or pv (PV) system will certainly be set up at the Customer Parking Lot 1 at Sendai Airport in the province of Miyagi, Toyota Tsusho announced recently.

Covering an area of 8,763 sq m (94,324 sq ft), the solar system will be capable of conference roughly 20% of the Sendai Airport Passenger Terminal Building's total electrical energy consumption.

Scheduled to come right into operation in April of following year, this PV project is the initial of its kind to be embraced by the Japanese Civil Aviation Bureau, a branch of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport as well as Tourism, under the Airport Decarbonisation Promotion Project Subsidy program.