Sharp · The world's largest solar power generation "mega solar power generation plan" jointly promoted by Kansai Electric Power · Sakai City

Sakai City, Kansai Electric Power Company, and Sharp Corporation today agreed to jointly promote the mega solar power generation plan in the coastal area of ​​Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture. It adopts a thin film silicon solar cell module, totaling about 28 MW (about 28,000 kW), it seems that it is the world's largest solar power generation scale.

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Promotion of "mega solar power generation plan at the coastal area of ​​Sakai city" | News release: Sharp

Press release - Promotion of "mega solar power generation plan at Sakai city coastal area" - [Kansai Electric Power Co.]

CO 2 reduction by this plan is expected to be about 10,000 tons a year in total, and it seems to make efforts to realize low-carbon type city.

This is "Sakai No. 7-3 Ward Solar Power Plant (tentative name)"


Place is to be borrowed from Osaka prefecture at 7-3 Ward Sakai Industrial Waste Landfill Site (4 Okinawa Prefecture Nishi-ku Nishi-ku Ward Ward Ward). The area is about 20 ha, the power output is about 10 MW (about 100,000 kW), the generated electric energy is about 11 million kWh / year. Total project cost is about 5 billion yen, the construction start schedule is in 2009, the plan to start operation is in Heisei 23 year.

Another is the "Sakai Complex Solar Power Generation Facility (tentative name)"


Place is in Osaka Prefecture Sakai-ku Sakai-ku Sakai-ku, Sakai-ku, Kagoshima-hachiman-cho, with power output up to about 18 MW (about 18,000 kW), initially about 9 MW (about 900 kW) scheduled. The amount of electricity generated will be about 18 million kWh / year, the construction schedule will be March 2010 and the scheduled start of operation will be March 2011.