14 DAY TRIAL // Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture is now home to the country's largest offshore solar power plant.
The plant is the result of a collaboration between Kyocera Corporation and six other companies.
It has an energy generating capacity of 70MW, and its output will be entirely sold to the national grid via a local utility company, Inhabitat reports.
The same source tells us that, although the facility, dubbed the Kagoshima Nanatsujima Mega Solar Power Plant, has been up and running since November 1, it was only a couple of days ago, on November 4, when high officials officially inaugurated it.
Apparently, the plant is intended to prove that Japan is ready and willing to invest in clean energy sources, and say goodbye to nuclear power and dirty fossil fuels.
In light of the recent incidents at Fukushima and the UN's telling us that time is running out to limit global warming, it comes as good news that Japan has decided to improve on its ecological footprint.