“Solar Frontier plans to provide products and services including consultation on project planning, CIS solar modules supply, and sourcing of balance-of-systems equipment for JAG on projects it is handling that total over 100MW currently working on, which is enough to power 30,000 Japanese households,” the company says in a statement.

Solar Frontier, a subsidiary of oil company Showa Shell Sekiyu, develops and manufactures CIS (denoting copper, indium, selenium) thin-film solar modules for customers around the world.

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