Tag: Japan

  • World’s largest floating solar power plant on the way in Japan

    In a joint venture, Kyocera Corporation and Century Tokyo Leasing Corporation announced that Kyocera TCL Solar LLC has started construction of the world’s largest 13.7-MW floating solar power plant on the Yamakura Dam reservoir, managed by the Public Enterprises Agency of Chiba Prefecture in Japan for industrial water services. ScheduledRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • PV to slide in Japan, Germany — does this effect global growth?

    After amending its renewable energy law in August 2014, Germany is expected to attain an annual installed capacity of around 1.8 GW in 2015 and will fail to hit the annual solar PV installation target of between 2.4 and 2.6 GW, according to Ankit Mathur, GlobalData’s Practice Head for Power. “ThisRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Canadian Solar to build huge 47-MWp solar plant in Japan

    Canadian Solar Inc. signed an agreement with Mashiki Town and Kumamoto Prefecture to build a 47-MWp solar power plant. Once completed, the Mashiki solar power plant will be the largest solar plant in Kumamoto Prefecture. The Mashiki plant is expected to start commercial operation in the first quarter of 2017.Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • 7 Awesome Gardens From Around the World

    Perhaps you are busy planting flowers in your yard or maybe you’re headed downtown to stroll through a public garden…

  • How Renewable Energy Can Power Japan Post-Fukushima

    Naoto Kan tells PBS’s Miles O’Brien he looks forward to a Japan where “all electricity produced by nuclear power will be supplied by solar panels.” Kan was Japan’s pro-nuke Prime Minister until three melt-downs and four explosions ripped Fukushima apart and spewed its unmeasurable clouds of deadly radiation into the air and ocean. Now a member…