Wirsol and Los Angeles-based Greenpower will offer engineering, procurement and construction (EPC), operations and maintenance, and project finance services to PV projects of 10MW and above.

Wirsol believes it can transfer its experience from the German solar industry to Japan, which is currently seeing strong interest in PV development following the launch of a competitive feed-in tariff regime .

The partners claim project finance has proved an early barrier for some developers.

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