Showa Shell Sekiyu KK 7 released press release announced that it will spend about 1,000 billion yen in Japan, Miyazaki Prefecture to build a new factory CIS thin film solar cells. Press release pointed out that the block the new plant a capacity of 900MW, and is expected to open in late 2011, the amount of production, produced by solar cells in Japan in addition to the family, industry and large-scale power generation purposes, the follow-up also plans to export to overseas .
Press release noted that in addition to the new plant, the Showa Shell now has two annual capacity of 20MW and 60MW respectively, of the CIS solar battery plant, so the amount of new plant to be post-partum, Showa Shell Sekiyu KK overall annual production capacity of solar cells to reach 1GW (1,000 MW) in size; Showa Shell Sekiyu KK solar cell plant in the block size would be beyond the capacity of Sharp's Katsuragi in Nara Prefecture plant (annual capacity of 710MW) to become Japan's largest solar-cell factory.
Sep. 8, 2009
