The renewables developer completed the installation in Aomori prefecture, northern Japan, on 1 October.

Mitsubishi Electric and SunPower supplied the solar panels, according to an online statement.

Tokyo-based Eurus Energy first announced plans to build the ¥49bn ($407.8m) project — which spans 253 hectares across two sites in the Mutsu-Ogawara industrial park in the village of Rokkasho, near the northernmost tip of the main Japanese island of Honshu — in May 2013.

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