Suntech will supply the panels, a company spokesperson tells Recharge.

Tokyo-based NTT Facilities, a unit of Japanese telecoms giant Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, will construct the array in a park in Oshu, Iwate prefecture.

It expects to connect the project to the grid in October 2016, according to an online statement.

Over the past month, NTT Facilities has completed seven solar projects, bringing the total number of installations it has independently developed to 35.

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