{"id":16010,"date":"2012-06-20T13:32:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T11:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=16010"},"modified":"2012-06-20T15:40:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T13:40:49","slug":"toshiba-to-build-japans-largest-solar-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/16010\/toshiba-to-build-japans-largest-solar-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Toshiba to build Japan’s largest solar plant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toshiba Corp<\/a> said on Wednesday it will begin building solar plants with a total generating capacity of 100 megawatts on the country’s disaster-hit northeastern coastline, making it the biggest solar project in Japan.<\/p>\n

Electronics conglomerate Toshiba, which makes everything from lightbulbs to nuclear reactors, said it will spend around 30 billion yen ($379.6 million) to build several large-scale solar plants in Minami Soma more than a year after a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan.<\/p>\n

The project overtakes an earlier plan by Kyocera Corp, heavy machinery maker IHI Corp and Mizuho Corporate Bank, which said it will launch a 70-megawatt plant in southern Japan.<\/p>\n

Toshiba said it will start building the plants this year and aim to start operations in 2014.<\/p>\n

Residents of Minami Soma, located just 25 km (16 miles) from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, were forced to flee their homes last year after a part of the city was deemed a no-gone zone by the government in the wake of the world’s worst atomic disaster in 25 years.<\/p>\n

The company’s announcement comes after the Japanese government approved new incentives for renewable energy through an introduction of feed-in tariffs (FIT) this week, which is expected to unleash billions of dollars in clean-energy investment.<\/p>\n

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