Supermarket operator Life Corporation will procure the output of 11 solar power plants totaling about 2.2MWDC under a 20-year off-site PPA with Tokyo Gas, the companies announced on December 18, 2025.
According to the statement, the plants will be located in the northern Kanto area. Their output, estimated to reach about 2.5GWh per year, will be delivered to nine Life stores in the Greater Tokyo Area with Tokyo Gas acting as the retailer sleeving the PPA. It is expected to cover approximately 18% of the facilities’ annual power consumption. The assets’ ownership was not disclosed.
Tokyo Gas will also supply the portion of the stores’ consumption not covered by the PPA, primarily using the output of its own assets. The companies will decide on the share of the additional power to be covered by non-fossil certificates each year. Life signed the deal with Tokyo Gas Engineering Solutions, acting as its parent company’s agent, based on a memorandum of understanding on decarbonization collaboration executed earlier this year.
The TSE Prime-listed retail company operates 316 supermarkets nationwide, including 170 in the Kansai area and 146 in the Greater Tokyo Area. It operates 25 solar power plants that generated about 1.8GWh in FY2024 and also produced approximately 700MWh using biogas in the same year. The agreement with Tokyo Gas is its first disclosed PPA.
