Taiwan-based power supply and energy management solution provider Delta Electronics has obtained orders for 750-800 20KW distributed inverters for use in a 15MWp PV power-generating station in Tochigi Prefecture, central Japan, with total order value exceeding US$2 million, according to Chinese-language newspapers Economic Daily News and Commercial Times.
The PV power-generating station is jointly invested by Japan-based Takara Leben, Hitachi Zosen and Solar Frontier, with Takara offering an abandoned golf course as the site, Hitachi Zosen providing EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) services and Solar Frontier supplying CIS thin-film PV modules, the newspapers said. Delta Electronics has become the first foreign enterprise that has obtained official certification for PV inverters in Japan.
Delta has also invested JPY1.2 billion (US$10 million) to acquire a site of 260,000 square meters located in Ako, southwestern Japan, for setting up a 4MWp PV power-generating station. Delta will handle EPC and supply inverters while Taiwan-based Neo Solar Power, of which Delta is a major shareholder, will supply PV modules. The PV power-generating station will be completed by the end of third-quarter 2015 and, by the end of the year, connected to local power grid at a feed-in tariff of JPY40/kWh for 20 years.
