Japan's general waste landfills and disposal sites for industrial waste could support as much as 7.39GW of solar capacity, according to documents published by the MoE earlier this year. It said it has "created a mid- to long-term introduction promotion proposal for the measures that we determined to be the most important.”

Through the end of 2016, the ministry says it plans to offer subsidies to developers, as well as municipal and prefectural governments, to support feasibility studies and to finance planned PV installations.

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