
The 74.95MW Aichi Tahara Biomass Power Plant in the Chubu TSO area was commissioned on November 26, 2024, the power plant’s owners including Marubeni, Enewill, and Osaka Gas announced.
According to their statements, the power plant will generate approximately 530GWh per year using woody biomass. The generated power will be sold through the feed-in-tariff (FIT) scheme, which pays a fixed amount per kWh. When the Aichi Tahara Biomass Power Plant was FIT-certified in September 2017, the FIT offered for general woody biomass generation was 24 yen per kWh for 20 years.
JGC Holdings served as the project’s engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor. Construction was originally planned to commence in September 2021, however, it was delayed to February 2022. The originally planned October 2024 commissioning was delayed by approximately a month.
Marubeni Clean Power, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Marubeni, and Enewill each hold 37.5% of the power plant’s operator Aichi Tahara Biomass Power Generation LLC. Osaka Gas owns the remaining 25%.
Both Marubeni Clean Power and Osaka Gas own stakes in multiple other operational biomass power plants. The latter’s 50MW Hyuga Biomass Power Plant in Miyazaki Prefecture is the most recent to have come online before the Aichi Tahara Biomass Power Plant. Enewill had no operational pure biomass power plants in its portfolio before Aichi Tahara’s commissioning. However, it has a 50MW project under construction in Wakayama Prefecture.