The venture, a collaboration with Tokyo-basedShizen Energy, completed and connecteda 1MW solar PV plant near Kumamoto city on Kyushu Island last month. The project uses Canadian Solar modules.

Known as Juwi Shizen Energy, the new company has a project pipeline of120MW for this year and plans to install 1GW of wind and solar projects by 2017,according to Juwi.

It will offer projectdevelopment, EPC services, operation and maintenance, and project financing forboth solar and wind energy.

However,