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Solar has landed its first industrial solar energy storage project in Japan, signing a memorandum of understanding with Narashinrinsigen Hozenkousya. The

capacity solar project Total Solar International has started work on in Japan will use 116,000 high-efficiency Maxeon solar panels supplied by U.S.

Solar Inc has launched commercial operations at two photovoltaic parks in Japan under the country's feed-in premium regime. The company has signed a 20-year

actually opened up a technological as well as screening centre in Yokohama, Japan, SolarEdge anticipates to be able to bring brand-new items to the

Energy has obtained financing for its 53-MW Kasama solar project in Japan. The facility located in Ibaraki prefecture in the Kanto region of Honshu is expected

Japanese programmer Pacifico Energy has started construction of a 121MW solar ranch in Japan. The project is located at Sanda in Hyogo prefecture as well as will certainly be mostly created on the website of a golf course. The EPC service provider is Juwi Shizen Energy. Commercial operations are anticipated to start in 2023. When completely commissioned, the project will produce approximately 143 million kilowatt-hours of power a year. The development was mainly financed by MUFG Bank and Mitsubishi HC Capital, with Baker McKenzie functioning as lawful guidance to Pacifico Energy. Pacifico Energy has currently begun construction of 15 solar energy plants throughout Japan totalling 1293MW. Eleven of the projects, with a combined capability of 930MW, have been completed and are now in commercial operation.

was presented to kick-start the marketplace in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 which resulted damage to Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power

withdraw any challenges to Maxeon's patent on shingled solar cell modules (Japan Patent No. JP6642841B2) as well as discontinue to offer shingled solar cell

Japan will provide economic assistance to assist build among the world's largest solar power plants in Qatar, regional media reported on Thursday. According to Kyodo News, the state-backed Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and also Mizuho Bank will prolong a $330 million syndicated financing for the 800-megawatt job in Al Kharsaah, a town in western Qatar. "This finance is anticipated to contribute to more fortifying of the multilayered economic connections between Japan and also Qatar," JBIC claimed in a declaration. A consortium of Japanese company Marubeni Corporation, French oil giant Total, and a Qatari energy company will certainly have and manage the solar power plant, which is slated to be practical by April 2022. The consortium will certainly offer electrical power for 25 years to Qatar General Electricity and also Water Corporation, according to the declaration. The facility will utilize double-sided photovoltaic or pv panels that "can additionally absorb sunshine shown by the ground onto their back side," it included. The job belongs to Qatar's strategies to diversify its power resources, with the liquefied all-natural gas-rich Gulf country aiming to raise the percentage of renewable resource in its overall power generation to 20% by 2030.

has partnered with GSSG Solar LLC to purchase a 117-MW solar portfolio in Japan, including eight operational parks with a total capacity of 104 MW and one

Japan KK has protected the JPY-18.7-billion (USD 162.3 m/EUR 144.8 m) financing from The Bank of Fukuoka Ltd, as an arranger, and also 8 various other

were purchased by a tie-up of firms possessed by Development Bank of Japan Inc, Kansai Electric Power Co Inc as well as Osaka Gas Co Ltd, the seller

energy mix, renewable resource technologies have become a main element in Japanese power and also power planning. Auctions, at the same time, have actually

financial closing for its 30 MW/120 MWh battery energy storage project in Japan, with debt financing secured from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. The Hirohara

Japan risks saddling its citizens with an inefficient, economically obsolete power fleet if it doesn’t rethink its current plans for a large-scale roll-out of new coal, experts have warned.   The Asian state could find itself with US$71 billion in stranded coal assets if it ends up deploying the multi-gigawatt pipeline of the fossil fuel under development in the country, according to analysis from the Carbon Tracker initiative.   In a report this week, the thinktank said the 11GW of new coal Japan has either pre-authorised, authorised or started building would need to be retired ahead of schedule for the country to meet its goals under the Paris Agreement on climate change.   The country – the world’s fourth largest power consumer – could immediately save US$29 billion if it reconsiders now the 11GW pipeline of new coal, according to Carbon Tracker analysts, who urged Japan to embrace instead increasingly cheap renewables.   The thinktank modelled clean energy prices over the next decade and found PV’s levelised cost of electricity (LCOE) could almost halve between today (nearly US$120/MWh) and 2023 (over US$60-plus/MWh), becoming cheaper than new coal plants at that point.   By 2025, according to Carbon Tracker’s estimates, solar PV LCOEs could have fallen below the US$60/MWh mark and outcompete existing coal generation. Off- and onshore wind could reach the same milestone at different points through 2027, the firm said.   World's third priciest PV market moves to auctions   The report – written alongside NGO CDP and Tokyo University’s Institute for Future Initiatives – called on Japan to tap into the strong clean energy economics, promoting growth by adopting anti-discrimination, pro-transparency regulations for the energy market.   The country may have so far given fossil fuels an “unfair advantage” – with baseload design shielding coal against clean energy cost declines – but could now add to its long track record of “technological prowess” by backing innovations such as battery storage and demand response, the paper said.   The claims that Japanese solar will reach grid parity by 2025 come amid similar predictions across the world. Earlier this year, IRENA reviewed renewable projects and PPAs and found 83% of the utility-scale PV pipeline commissioned for 2020 will outcompete the cheapest fossil fuels.   Japan has been, however, singled out so far as one of the world’s priciest PV markets. Where IRENA identified PV costs of US$793/kW and US$870/kW in India and Italy in 2018, it assigned US$2,101/kW to Japan, the third highest figure worldwide.   Analysis by Fitch Solutions warned in May of the uncertain outlook for utility-scale PV as Japan changes its clean energy policy approach. Roll-out, the firm said, will tank n as the new auction scheme is failing to produce prices able to replace the loss of feed-in tariffs.   Project update: Total breaks ground on 52MWp PV plant in Osato   In Japan, the thinktank recommendations on clean energy policy came as the country witnessed the launch of construction works for a utility-scale PV project in the northeast.   On Tuesday, Total Solar International said it has now broken ground on a 52MWp solar plant near the town of Osato, a five-hour drive northeast of capital Tokyo.   The plant in the Miyagi prefecture has already achieved its financial close and is scheduled to start supplying the grid in 2021, the firm explained in a statement.   The installation is, Total said, designed to comply with Japan’s anti-earthquake standards and will boast some 116,000 of SunPower’s Maxeon solar panels.   According to the developer, the so-called Miyagi Osato Solar Park represents its third and largest PV venture so far in Japan.   The project – co-owned between Total Solar (90%) and a Japanese subsidiary of the Softbank Group (10%) – pushes the firm’s cumulative PV capacity past the 100MWp mark in Japan.     According to Total Solar, the Otaso ground-breaking follows the operational launch of 27MWp Nanao Power Plant in 2017 and 25MWp Miyako Solar Park in 2019.