The Tokyo-based thin-film PV specialist plans to start building the project from next March with the municipal authorities in the historical town of Hiraizumi, Iwate prefecture.
Solar Frontier, the world's biggest producer of CIGS thin-film modules, expects to running the plant at some point in 2016.
The project will be built on 35.8 hectares of commercial land in Kagonezawa district, Hiraizumi, which is situated roughly 80km south of the Iwate prefectural capital of Morioka.
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