Japan opens its largest solar power plant

The Kagoshima Nanatsujima Mega Solar Plant has a capacity of 70 MW.

Japan largest solar plant is located in the southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima. It was designed by Japanese electronics giant Kyocera Corporation and was built in Kagoshima City, one of the few areas in Japan where the sky is clear.

The 70 MW solar power plant covers an area of 1.27 million square meters and is equipped with 290,000 solar panels. It can supply power to 22,000 local households, making it the biggest solar generation plant in Japan. Kyocera had invested US$274 million to build the plant.

At the opening of the plant on Monday afternoon, Nobuo Kitamura, the president of Kagoshima Mega Solar Power Corporation, the plant’s operator, said:

In addition to solar, Kagoshima City and surrounding areas, with their major volcanoes and islands, have other energy resources such as geothermal power, wind power and tidal current power.