The Tokyo-based company’s partner, developer Community WindPower, will start building the plant in October.
A Watami spokesperson declinedto reveal the module supplier to the project.
The plant will be situated on a25-hectareplot of land in Atsuma, a townnear the port of Tomakomai. It will start feeding electricity into the regional gridunder Japan’s feed-in tariff system (FIT) in November 2014.
Japan's generous FIT isencouraging scores of new entrants into the nation's booming solar market.
