{"id":141649,"date":"2021-07-20T10:24:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T01:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=141649&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-07-20T10:24:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T01:24:19","slug":"large-bio-power-plant-built-in-fukuoka","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/large-bio-power-plant-built-in-fukuoka\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Bio-power Plant Built in Fukuoka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of Japan&#8217;s largest biomass power plants is now in operation in Kanda Town, Fukuoka Prefecture. Funded by Renova Inc., Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd., and three more companies, the 75-megawatt plant would supply electricity to clients of Kyushu Electric Power (Kyuden.) The yearly production of 500,000 megawatts is equivalent to the demands of 170,000 households. <\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.renovainc.com\/news\/business\/pdf\/20210715_01_PRESS.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Press Release<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-141650\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kanda-biomass.jpg?resize=1024%2C677&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kanda-biomass.jpg?resize=1024%2C677&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kanda-biomass.jpg?resize=300%2C198&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kanda-biomass.jpg?resize=768%2C508&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kanda-biomass.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Disclaimer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. 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Funded by Renova Inc., Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd., and three more companies, the 75-megawatt plant would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":141650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-141649","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-fukuoka-prefecture","news-category-technology","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/141649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}