Today Sharp Japan [JP], the city of Sakai and Kansai Electric Power [JP] announced [JP] the so-called “Sakai City Waterfront Mega Solar Power Generation Plan”. Under the initiative, two mega solar power generation plants are to be built in Sakai (near Osaka) by 2010.
One facility will have an output of 10,000 kW, while the second plant is planned to produce 28,000 kW. The complex will be one of the largest of its kind in the world. Sharp and Kansai Electric claim when the plan is realized, the solar facilities will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 10,000 tons yearly.
The solar energy will be used for factories Sharp and other companies operate in Sakai. The city is planning to become one of Japan’s leading “green” cities.
Interesting & Exciting news.
Japan has usually the foresight other countries lack (popularity of fiber optic just to name one).
I hope other will learn listen and reproduce, that’s the only future we can have here on this little planet
What a great idea. Will someone please send a copy of this to George W, Dick Cheney the rest of their oil freinds. Perhaps this could be the beginning of the way out of our foreign oil dependence. Just think clean nonpolluting energy humhum.
I think this show much foresight in the placing and the idea. I am interested however in what effects Japan has noted in the environmental changes that have occurred since their implemention of photovoteic systems throughout Japan. Is there increased dryness in these areas. The Egyptians utilized the sun as their major energy sources and now that area is all desert. Did the utilization od solar power generation have any baring on the climate changes there or was it just evolutionary?
hell-o