On October 29, 2024, JDC Corporation and Miyako City, Iwate Prefecture, held a groundbreaking ceremony to commemorate the start of construction of the 2.97MWDC “Night-Time Grid-Connected Solar Power Plant.”
The project, which is expected to be commissioned in December 2025, is being developed by Taro Hatsuden LLC, a joint venture between the company and the city. It will include a 7.99MWh BESS alongside the solar power plant. Excluding mornings when power generation is low and times when batteries are fully charged, the solar power plant will be used for charging the BESS during the day, with the power being discharged in the evening and during the night.
JDC Corporation will build the new project adjacent to the existing 2.36MWDC Taro Solar Power Plant, which it commissioned in 2015 together with the city, as well as Asia Air Survey and Fukken.
“Miyako City, which suffered severe damage from the Great East Japan Earthquake, proposed the smart community concept as one of its measures for reconstruction. At the time, we were also working with the primary goal of contributing to reconstruction, so we … began operating the Tsugaruishi and Taro solar power plants in 2015,” said Isao Hayashi, JDC Corporation’s President and CEO, at the groundbreaking ceremony. “In 2021, Miyako City invested in the projects, securing locally produced energy for local consumption,” he continued.
In November 2022, Miyako City was selected as a decarbonization pioneering region. The new solar power plant and BESS facility is being developed as part of the decarbonization pioneering region project.
