KDDI to Build Three Solar Power Plants on Idle Land in Japan

KDDI Corp., Japan’s second-biggest mobile phone company, will build three solar plants in central Japan with a combined capacity of 8.8 MW to take advantage of the country’s incentive program for clean energy.  The Tokyo-based company will build a 3.5 MW station in Tochigi prefecture with plans for a 3.3 MW and 2 MW plants, both in Ibaraki prefecture, it said in a statement.

The plants will be built on idled land owned by the company and will start generating power as early as this fall, according to the statement.