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diversified and detailed trading, investment, as well as solution business in

in penetrating the small PV task market, with a 35MW plant being set up in Japan as well as a 77MW setup in Taiwan that is anticipated to begin shipment in Q3.

will consolidate GIG's existing battery storage tasks in the UK, Australia, Japan and Taiwan. Subject to receipt of appropriate regulative authorizations, Eku

by 2050. In September, SCG partnered with Nomura Research Institute of Japan to comprehend the carbon dioxide emissions from its distribution network.

stabilized, grid-ready assets. Hokkaido offers excellent irradiation by Japanese standards, but the island’s grid constraints and winter conditions

Japan’s Renova Inc has clinched an 85-MW solar project in the Philippines’ Visayas region through a recent competitive auction, adding momentum to the country’s push for more utility-scale renewables. The win gives Renova a new foothold in Southeast Asia’s fast-growing solar market and injects additional daytime capacity into an islanded grid that faces rising demand and periodic transmission bottlenecks. The project will follow a lender-friendly design: high-efficiency modules—many bifacial—on single-axis trackers to extend production into morning and evening shoulders, DC/AC ratios tuned for annual yield, and plant controllers aligned with Philippine grid-code requirements for reactive power, ride-through and ramp-rate limits. Unified SCADA with string-level telemetry should sharpen O&M and lift availability by catching underperforming blocks quickly. Visayas fundamentals are compelling. Industrial loads and tourism are rebounding, while distributed rooftop uptake remains uneven—leaving utility-scale PV as the most direct lever for decarbonising midday supply and tempering wholesale price spikes. Siting near strong substations will be critical to minimize curtailment and manage interconnection timelines. Although storage is not part of the award, modern layouts preserve pad space and transformer headroom for two-to-four-hour batteries that could shift energy into the evening ramp and provide fast frequency support. Community and environmental safeguards are now standard in Philippine builds: traffic and dust controls, storm-water systems sized for heavy rain, glare studies where relevant, and biodiversity plans using native species under arrays. Decommissioning provisions and recycling pathways for modules and balance-of-plant components give long-term assurance to landowners and municipalities. Commercially, Renova can pursue utility or retailer PPAs, or blend corporate offtake to diversify exposure. Early reservations of long-lead gear—transformers, switchgear, protection systems—often dictate schedules more than civil works, so procurement discipline will matter. If execution matches design, Renova’s 85-MW plant will add a meaningful block of local, low-cost daytime generation—reducing fuel imports, cutting emissions and smoothing volatility across the Visayas grid.

Japan’s ENEOS Renewable Energy Corp (ERE) has signed a framework agreement to acquire 10 MWdc of solar power plants that will be developed and constructed by Marubeni Corp. The tie-up adds another tranche of operating PV to ENEOS’ portfolio while giving Marubeni a repeatable sell-down route that recycles capital into new builds. Although the parties did not disclose site locations or expected commercial operation dates, frameworks like this typically cover a small pipeline of distribution-connected assets in multiple prefectures, with staggered closings as plants reach mechanical completion and pass acceptance tests. For ENEOS, the structure creates schedule certainty and quality consistency: Marubeni develops, procures and constructs to a common spec, then transfers fully tested assets with performance warranties and O&M arrangements in place. Technically, the projects are likely to follow a lender-friendly blueprint—high-efficiency modules (in many cases bifacial) on fixed-tilt or compact tracker systems suited to Japanese terrain, string inverters for granular fault isolation, and plant controllers aligned with utility interconnection rules for reactive power support, ramp-rate limits and ride-through. Unified SCADA with string-level telemetry will enable predictive maintenance, while snow and typhoon design measures (wind bracing, reinforced piles, stow strategies) anchor durability. Commercially, ENEOS can blend retail supply to corporate customers with grid sales, while using its O&M scale to lower costs per megawatt. For Marubeni, the arrangement turns development expertise into a reliable cash-recycling engine: originate and de-risk projects, then sell at COD and redeploy proceeds into the next wave. That cadence is increasingly important as equipment lead times normalize and permitting timelines still dominate schedules. Community measures—construction traffic and noise controls, drainage sized for cloudbursts, visual buffers and end-of-life recycling plans—are standard in Japanese approvals and will be carried through to operations. Biodiversity-friendly groundcover and vegetation management beneath arrays are expected to reduce erosion and maintenance passes. Bottom line: a modest headline capacity with outsized strategic value—ENEOS secures bankable domestic PV with operational synergies, while Marubeni locks in a repeat buyer to accelerate pipeline conversion without balance-sheet drag.

year, making the Greenko wager one of its largest investments anywhere outside Japan. For the Hyderabad-based Greenko Group, established by Anil Kumar

powered by 5GW of solar as well as wind, and eventually exporting hydrogen to Japan and also Korea. Meanwhile, the opportunity of moving hydrogen from Australia

arrangements introduced in the last year with countries such as Japan, South Korea, Singapore as well as

gross margin, shut the sales of our Ishikawa, Miyagi, and Anamizu projects in Japan, and rise revenues per share quarter over quarter. This outcome mirrors the

by 2022. Presently, China is the prominent worldwide market complied with by Japan as well as South Korea for floating solar, the research study pointed out. It

according to the IEA, which also picked out Vietnam, India, the U.S. and Japan as fast-expanding solar markets. In fact the only uncertainty cited in the

by the World Bank last year as the world's cheapest floating PV market, while Japan was priciest at US$3.12 per megawatt. The global sector counted

should account for 80% of the total. Target regions include Western Europe, Japan and South Korea. The firm’s CEO, Eric Luo, caught up with PV Tech at