Hanwha Q Cells will supply roughly 105,000 modules for the plant, a JFE Engineering spokesperson tells Recharge, without disclosing the terms of the deal.

Nagano-based health-food provider Sunny Health will operate the project in Sukagawa, Fukushima prefecture, after it is completed in March 2015.

Tokyo-based JFE Engineering has become increasingly active in the Japanese solar market over the past year.

Last August, it secured an order to build roughly 21.7MW