Toshiba says it will spend around ¥30bn ($379.6m) to build several large-scale solar plants in Fukushima, more than a year after an earthquake knocked out Tokyo Electric Power’s nuclear reactors in the prefecture.

The company expects to start construction on the solar plants before the end of the year and hopes to have operations begin sometime in 2014.

It states the combined plants will be Japan’s biggest, although Softbank