Kyocera Corporation and Century Tokyo Leasing Corporation announced that their joint venture, Kyocera TCL Solar, has completed construction of two floating solar power plants in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. The 1.7 MW floating solar plant at Nishihira Pond and the 1.2 MW plant at Higashihira Pond were built using Kyocera modules fixed to specially developed … [continued]
It’s barely been a month since we reported on the government of Kawajima-machi’s (Saitama Prefecture, Japan) plans to develop a 7.5 MW solar power plant on the surface of Umenokifurukori reservoir. And now Kyocera has announced a 13.4 MW floating solar power plant on the Yamakura Dam reservoir in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. The company did … [continued]
Favorable government policies and incentives are continuously pushing the development of solar sector in Japan. But the development of ground-mounted solar systems is still a challenge there due to lack of vacant land. Kyocera has, therefore, come out with an alternative plan of installing floating solar panels over ponds. According … [continued]
