Nestled
in
the
hills
surrounding
the
verdant
agricultural
plains
of
Kunitomi
-
literally
"beautiful
place"
-
the
¥100bn
($1.2bn)
plant,
capable
of
producing
900MW
of
thin-film
modules
a
year,
is
the
result
of
over
three
decades
of
research
and
development
by
parent
company
Showa
Shell
Sekiyu.
Spanning
three
storeys
in
a
158,000-square-metre
building,
Solar
Frontier's
highly
automated
operations
are
vast
by
any
standards.
Currently
churning
out
5,000
modules
a
day,
the
operation
has
the
capacity
to
ramp
up
to
116,000.
The
investment
by
Showa
Shell
Sekiyu
-
which
is…
