According to METI, at 60MWh the battery bank will be the largest of its kind in the world to be set up at a utility-run substation.
METI plans to drawfrom ¥29.6bn ($298m) in reserve funds left over from the fiscal 2012 budgetto cover the installation costs
Regional utility Hokkaido Electric Power will install the system by the end of the 2014 financial year.
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