Akihabara News (Tokyo) — Chemical manufacturing company Taiyo Holdings announced that a new 2.3MW floating solar photovoltaic farm has been switched on in Miki city, Hyogo Prefecture.
The Chuoike Floating Solar Power Plant is company’s fourteenth project of the kind, spread across the seven prefectures of Aichi, Gifu, Hyogo, Kagawa, Mie, Nara, and Saitama. All of them have been completed since October 2015.
The combined capacity of the company’s floating solar projects is close to 20MW.
In its statement, the firm explained that “it is generally the case that solar panels generate less power as the temperature rises, but with floating solar the cooling effect of the water moderates such temperature rises. This is an advantage of floating solar as compared to land-mounted solar panels.”
The Chuoike plant entered full operations on May 13.
Taiyo Holdings established Taiyo Green Energy as a subsidiary in 2014 to build out and operate its solar business.
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