Two Japanese firms each plan 2-MW solar plant

Kokusai Kogyo and Orix Corp will each build a 2MW solar power plant in western Japan.

Operations will start in July and September respectively.

Kokusai Kogyo, a major aerial surveying contractor that has built many solar plants, and Orix, Japan's top general leasing company, are taking advantage of a feed-in tariff scheme, which will requires the utilities to buy all kinds of renewable energy from July.

Electricity output generated by the plants will be sold to regional power provider, Shikoku Electric Power.

Japan is keen to increase renewable power in the wake of the radiation crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant.

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