The mega-solar project, launched in June 2012, was part of a region-wide reconstruction project designed to support Iwanuma City recover after the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Tsunami in 2011. Marubeni was selected as the business operator by Iwanuma City and has been working with the authorities, tsunami-affected landowners and other concerned parties to complete the project. At the time of its opening, the power plant was the largest solar power plant in the Tohoku region of Japan.
Marubeni’s other mega-solar power plant projects include 82MW in Oita, 49MW in Mie/Aichi and including other projects nation-wide, Marubeni’s solar-power generation capacity reach approximately 200MW.
Marubeni is determined to further spread the utilization of such renewable energy as offshore wind power, geothermal power and small/medium-scale hydropower generation to meet society’s demand for the reduction of environmental impacts and also to help Tohoku region of Japan fully recover from the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Tsunami in 2011.
