More than 15,000 of REC’s Peak Energy Series modules arebeing used at a recently completed 2.5MW ground-mount plant in MiePrefecture, and another 1.3MW array under construction Shiga Prefecture, bothon the main island of Honshu.
The customer is Chubu subsidiary C-Energy, while the landthe projects are sited on is owned by the textile company Toyobo.
Japan’s solar boom – the result of a generous feed-in tariffsparked in part by the Fukushima nuclear crisis – is making waves across theglobal PV industry, with tier-one Chinese, US and European module suppliers allpiling into the market to compete with well entrenched domestic players likeSharp and Panasonic.
