Vena Energy starts up 37-MW solar park in Japan

• Singapore-based independent power producer (IPP) Vena Energy has finished the construction as well as started industrial operation of a 37-MW solar PV park in Japan's Nagano prefecture, it claimed.

Named Kawakami Solar Project, the plant includes more than 89,000 bifacial PV photovoltaic panels covering a 49.87-hectares (123.23 acres) location in Kawakami village.

The solar farm will be able to create adequate tidy electricity to power over 10,000 regional homes for a year.

With Kawakami Solar, the Singaporean IPP increases its Japanese functional portfolio to 26 wind as well as solar energy centers with an integrated capacity of 516 MW across the nation, the company included.