Etrion, the Geneva-based PV developer, last month unveiled adevelopment partnership with Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation  aiming to have 100MW of ground-mount PVcapacity “under construction or shovel-ready” in Japan by 2015.

The first project to be brought on line will be a 9.3MWarray in Mito, central Japan, with construction at the $30m ground-mount array to kick offin the next few months and set to finish in the first half of 2015.