Groundbreaking Ceremony Held for Japan’s Largest PV Power Plant with 230MW

On November 7, Jin Hai Yantian construction site “Setouchi megawatt-scale PV power plant project” groundbreaking ceremony was held Okayama Prefecture in Seto, Japan. The project is in Seto City, and has approximately 500 hectares of salt. It is about 260 ha site in the ground, construction output power of about 230MW of megawatt-scale PV power plants. It was completed megawatt-scale PV power plant in the largest one in Japan.

From the popularity of renewable energy and local innovation perspective, the project has great significance. Under the leadership of the local government, just two years since construction, “the owner of the site in the Yantian Seto City, Mayor Takehisa Cheng said this is significant.” He hopes to take advantage of megawatt-scale PV power plants to take care of the children left behind. “We will explore how to promote us this renewable energy legislation’s city.”

Megawatt-scale PV power plant generating facility is scheduled to begin in 2019 in the second quarter business operation. The whole project consists of three elements, namely, the “megawatt-scale PV power plant generating business’ as the core investment of about 3 billion yen reinforced embankments, drainage pumps and other "secure and safe business” and the maintenance of salt and other natural wetlands site. At the same time the environment can stimulate local economic vitality “urban construction and environmental protection work.” On the same day, Takehisa Setouchi City mayor announced the “Solar City Project”, showing the concept of the 25-year total of about 10 billion yen of the rent income is used to activate the local economy.

Planning and coordination of construction projects and megawatt-scale PV power plant-related facilities by Toyo Engineering Corporation, enhance dams and other infrastructure-related construction undertaken by Shimizu Construction Company. The generated electricity will be sold to all power companies in Japan and China. After the start of commercial operations, maintaining operations of power generation equipment to the Electrical Company predetermined is centered.

As a megawatt-scale PV power plant equipment, it will be under the consideration of the protection of ecosystems. Yantian site has the setting of about 920,000 solar panels. The solar Inverter (PCS) used by the US General Electric Company (GE) and Toshiba Mitsubishi Electric Industrial Systems Corporation (TMEIC) manufactured products. Corresponding to the construction of the land below sea level soft foundation, set up panels of the stand according to the characteristics foundations were used to pile foundation and the concrete foundation. Ease of accumulating rainwater connected to the ground, and this sets the height at one meter or more.