Japan is about to build a new solar power plant and it’ll their largest one to date. The country is trying to improve their power grid and make it more sustainable after the nuclear disaster last year. Great to see progress!
The new plant, which will be called the Kagoshima Nanatsujima Mega-Solar Power Plant, is expected to take up approximately 314 acres, though drawings show most of that space will be over water, either by constructing a floating barge or building up the seabed below. Once completed, the plant is expected to produce 70MW of electricity (enough to power 22,000 homes) which would make it Japan’s largest such facility, and perhaps more tellingly, would amount to 40% of Japan’s total current solar electrical output.
Wow…solar over the ocean, now that’s innovative. I don’t know if it has been done in the past but this is the first time I’ve read about it. In the U.S. we are excited about solar on rooftops!
Mary J.
Great to hear that Japan are trying to build more renewable power sites, especially after last years disaster.