"We’d like to start selling power commercially, but it depends on whether we have customers or not," SoftBank spokesperson Matthew Nicholson tells Recharge.

"We have a track record in power generation, with various (utility-scale PV) installations around Japan… being able to deliver and sell renewable power, that’s a big part of this."

However, the company denied a report by The Nikkei newspaper stating that SB Energy intends to sell electricity to households after efforts to fully liberalise the nation’s electricity market are completed in 2016.

"Nothing