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Solar Frontier Supplies CIS Solar Panels

Conceptual Drawing of the Miyazaki Solar Way Tsuno No. 2 Power Plant.
by Staff Writers
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 09, 2010
Solar Frontier K.K. has announced that it will supply CIS thin-film solar cell modules on the scale of roughly 1 megawatt to the "Tsuno No. 2 Power Plant", a power plant that Miyazaki Solar Way Co., Ltd. of the Kokusai Kogyo Group plans to start operating in 2011 in the town of Tsuno in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. (The modules will be delivered by the JFE Steel Corporation Group.)

The construction of the Tsuno No. 2 Power Plant is being undertaken as one of Miyazaki Prefecture's "Miyazaki Solar Frontier Vision" initiatives and is part of the "Miyazaki Solar Way Project", a joint project between Miyazaki Prefecture, the town of Tsuno and the Kokusai Kogyo Group to install solar panels along approximately 3.6 km of an overhead structure at the site of the Linear Motorcar Miyazaki Test Track in order to generate about 1 megawatt of power.

CIS thin-film solar cell modules from Solar Frontier were selected as one of the three different types of modules installed at Tsuno No.1 Plant, and Solar Frontier will supply all of the solar cell modules to be installed at the Tsuno No. 2 Power Plant.

"Solar Frontier views future megawatt-scale solar projects as key opportunities to further demonstrate the economical and ecological superiority of our CIS thin-film solar cells," said Solar Frontier CEO, Shigeaki Kameda.

"Solar Frontier will aggressively pursue both public and private projects in booming solar cell markets both in Japan and around the world leveraging our global marketing network to offer customers economically-compelling CIS solar panels produced in our cutting-edge gigawatt-scale production facilities in Japan, including our third plant which will be the world's largest solar production plant once it commences operations in 2011."

Solar Frontier has recently started operations at a 1 megawatt solar power plant at Showa Shell Sekiyu's Niigata Petroleum Import Terminal in Niigata Prefecture. It is also in the process of constructing a 1 megawatt solar power plant next to its Second Miyazaki Plant in Miyazaki Prefecture, and a 2 megawatt solar power plant on the rooftop of its Third Miyazaki Plant.

Furthermore, Solar Frontier also plans to supply roughly 10 megawatts of CIS thin-film solar cell modules to the "Komekurayama Solar Power Plant (provisional name)" that is being constructed in Yamanashi Prefecture as a joint project between Yamanashi Prefecture and the Tokyo Electric Power Company. The new solar power plant is scheduled to begin operating in 2012. (The modules will be delivered by Meidensha Corporation.)



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