Japanese renewable energy company Resta announced on the fifth that it has built a brand new solar energy plant. The ability plant can be used for beekeeping and nectar plant cultivation (plants that function food for bees), and full-scale farming operations are scheduled to start this fall.
Resta is an organization that promotes the spread of renewable energy and agricultural solar energy generation systems. It owns and operates 75 solar energy plants in Japan and 88 in Taiwan, and has installed agricultural solar energy plants on five occasions.
Agricultural solar energy generation is a technique of putting in solar modules and power generation facilities on agricultural land to conduct agricultural activities and solar energy generation activities concurrently.
This time, the agricultural solar energy plant that Resta has implemented is an agricultural power plant with an influence generation capability of 18 megawatts (MW), and was installed in Hitoyoshi City, Kumamoto Prefecture. That is enough to produce electricity to 36,000 households or charge 19,370 electric vehicles.
Resta announced plans to expand agricultural solar energy plants, saying, “We are going to promote environmental conservation and regional revitalization through collaborative efforts between renewable energy and idle farmland.”
Reporter Lee Yu-seon energy@aiitmes.com
