Canadian Solar commissioned the 20MWAC/28.9MWDC CS Okayama Shin-Yubara CC Solar Power Plant in Maniwa City, Okayama Prefecture, on October 1, 2025, and began supplying the non-fossil certificates (NFCs) associated with its output to an undisclosed domestic company under a 25-year virtual PPA, the scheme’s coordinator Digital Grid announced on November 19, 2025.
According to the statement, Digital Grid will aggregate the asset’s output and sell it in the wholesale market. It will also support the transfer of the NFCs to the offtaker and settlement. The power plant will operate under the feed-in-premium (FIP) scheme, which pays a variable subsidy on top of the merchant revenues a project generates.
The project was originally awarded a 13.47 yen per kWh feed-in-tariff (FIT) in Japan’s fourth solar auction held in FY2019 before being switched to the FIP scheme at commissioning to enable the PPA. It was built on the former site of the Takagawa Shinyubara Country Club golf course and uses 41,832 Canadian Solar panels.
CS Okayama Shin-Yubara CC Solar Power Plant follows the 2MWAC/3MWDC CS Nagano Omachi Solar Power Plant commissioned earlier this year and about 50 other projects completed by Canadian Solar in Japan since 2014. A significant portion of the assets, including the most recently sold CS Tsukuba City Takamihara Power Plant, is owned by Canadian Solar Infrastructure Fund listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
