Niigata Taiyo Yuden began procuring power from three Leapton Energy high-voltage solar plants in the Tohoku TSO area under a 20-year offsite PPA sleeved by Tohoku Electric Power on February 1, 2026, the company announced on February 2, 2026.
According to the statement, the projects total 3.12MW. Their output is being delivered to the company’s facilities in Joetsu City, Niigata Prefecture.
The scheme is Niigata Taiyo Yuden’s first offsite PPA. It follows the first such arrangement of its parent Taiyo Yuden, under which the company began procuring the output of three ZEC-owned solar plants in Ibaraki Prefecture totaling 2.46MW on September 1, 2025, for its Tamamura Factory in Gunma Prefecture under a deal sleeved by TEPCO Energy Partner.
Taiyo Yuden, which primarily manufactures multilayer ceramic capacitors, targets reducing its group-wide Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 42% by FY2030 compared to their FY2020 levels and Scope 3 emissions by 25% in the same period. The group’s 2025 annual report shows that it procured about 1.03TWh of power globally in FY2024, up from 919.48GWh in FY2020. In that period, the share covered by renewables increased from 0.08% to 26.27%.
Leapton Energy is a solar module and other equipment manufacturer that is also active in development. According to its power generation unit Leapton Hatsuden Jigyo’s website, the group owns about 100 high-voltage power plants. METI data suggests most of those are operated under the feed-in-tariff (FIT) scheme, with some having been converted to the feed-in-premium (FIP) scheme.
