President Hiroaki Takahashi said, that the company plans to start construction of a 1,500-kW plant in Aomori and a 2,000-kW plant in Miyagi in fiscal 2010 and to begin operations in fiscal 2012.
The Aomori plant will be constructed in the compound of Tohoku Electric Power’s Hachinohe thermal power plant in Hachinohe and the Miyagi plant in the compound of its Sendai thermal power plant in the town of Shichigahama.
The two plants combinely will be able to generate power for about 1,100 households, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by about 1,800 tons a year.
