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Kyushu Electric Power subsidiary Nishinippon Environmental Energy Co. of Fukuoka City will begin a biomass power generation project using chicken manure in India in 2011, the company announced. It will be the first power generation project conducted by the Kyushu Electric Group in that country. The utility is interested in strengthening its overseas operations to cope with what it anticipates will be a shrinking domestic market in the future due to population declines. NEECO also says this will be the first biomass generation project conducted by a Japanese company in India.