{"id":21395,"date":"2012-05-03T12:27:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T03:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=21395"},"modified":"2012-05-08T12:28:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T03:28:09","slug":"kyushu-a-haven-for-natural-energy","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/kyushu-a-haven-for-natural-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->Kyushu a Haven for Natural Energy <!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en-->The Kyushu region is blessed with abundant sources of natural energy, and the number of companies building megasolar power plants is rising. The region already accounts for 17% of the nation\u2019s solar power generation, 16% of its wind power generation, and 40% of its thermal power generation. A new system for purchasing power at fixed costs will begin in July, which is spurring plans for the further construction of megasolar plants, reports the Nishinippon Shimbun. <!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en-->The Kyushu region is blessed with abundant sources of natural energy, and the number of companies building megasolar power plants is rising. The region already accounts for 17% of the nation\u2019s solar power generation, 16% of its wind power generation, and 40% of its thermal power generation. A new system for purchasing power at fixed costs will begin in July, which is spurring plans for the further construction of megasolar plants, reports the Nishinippon Shimbun. <!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-21395","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-category-environment","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21395","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}