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SB Energy Powers on Japan’s Largest Solar + Storage Power Plant

SoftBank Group subsidiary SB Energy Global Holdings (SB Energy) has turned on a 102.3 megawatt (MW) solar power plant in Yakumo City, Hokkaido, Japan.

Zachary Shahan

Published

October 28, 2020

SoftBank Group subsidiary SB Energy Global Holdings (SB Energy) has turned on a 102.3 megawatt (MW) solar power plant in Yakumo City, Hokkaido, Japan. The Softbank Yakumo Solar Park is accompanied by a 27.8 megawatt-hour (MWh) energy storage plant. This is the largest solar + storage power plant in Japan. It is expected to produce enough electricity for nearly 30,000 each year.

Japan’s largest solar-plus-storage plant is now operational.

103 MW of solar linked to 27MMh of battery storage, supplying 28,000 homes.

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— Paul Eastwood (@pauleastwd) October 21, 2020

Over in the United States, SB Energy acquired 5 solar power plants from Intersect Power that total 1.7 gigawatts (GW) one year ago, on October 31, 2019. The power plants are located in California and Texas.

Image courtesy SB Energy

The projects were constructed in 2020. They were supposed to support 3,000 jobs during construction. Here they are:

Aragorn, 250 MW_DC in Culberson Country, Texas: Austin Energy long-term power purchase agreement (PPA).
Athos I, 350 MWDC in Riverside County, California: Direct Energy Business long term power purchase agreement.
Athos II, 300 MW_DC in Riverside County, California: one unnamed company long-term REC and energy agreements.
Juno, 425 MW_DC in Borden County, Texas: Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) and one unnamed company long-term PPAs.
Titan, 375 MW_DC in Culberson County, Texas: one unnamed company long-term PPA.

The projects are expected to produce enough electricity each year for the equivalent of 357,000 homes.

Featured image courtesy of SB Energy

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Written By Zachary Shahan

Zach is tryin' to help society help itself one word at a time. He spends most of his time here on CleanTechnica as its director, chief editor, and CEO. Zach is recognized globally as an electric vehicle, solar energy, and energy storage expert. He has presented about cleantech at conferences in India, the UAE, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, the USA, Canada, and Curaçao. Zach has long-term investments in Tesla [TSLA], NIO [NIO], Xpeng [XPEV], Ford [F], ChargePoint [CHPT], Amazon [AMZN], Piedmont Lithium [PLL], Lithium Americas [LAC], Albemarle Corporation [ALB], Nouveau Monde Graphite [NMGRF], Talon Metals [TLOFF], Arclight Clean Transition Corp [ACTC], and Starbucks [SBUX]. But he does not offer (explicitly or implicitly) investment advice of any sort.