Tokyo-based Kinden will handle EPC duties for the project, which could cost up to ¥6bn ($58.6m), a spokesperson for PV developer Terra Power tells Recharge.
Construction will likely start in August on a 17.8-hectare site in the city of Kanoya, on the Osumi peninsula in Kagoshima prefecture.
Terra Power expects to complete the project by next March.
The company, a Tokyo-based subsidiary of IT outsourcing services provider Bit-isle, has already developed a handful of small PV projects in Japan, including two 1.5MW
