Local News

The Showa Shell oil company will enter the solar power generating business by building two plants in Miyazaki Prefecture with the large output capacity of 1,000 kW. The power from one of the two plants will be used at a factory of the company’s Miyazaki City subsidiary, while that from the other plant will be sold to a power utility. Showa Shell says that these will be the first mega-solar plants (1,000 kW output) in Japan. Both plants are scheduled to begin operation in FY 2010.