Biomass Power Technologies and its partners commissioned the 1.99MW Power Aid Mie Shin Biomass Matsusaka Power Plant in Matsusaka City, Mie Prefecture, on March 16, 2025, the company announced on April 28, 2025.
The power plant, which uses a Takuma-supplied boiler-turbine system and is operated by the special purpose company (SPC) Power Aid Mie LLC, is expected to generate about 16.5GWh annually. Unlike many biomass power plants of similar scale, it is not operated under the feed-in-tariff scheme. Instead, its output will be supplied to mushroom producer Hokuto for 15 years through an off-site PPA.
Power Aid Mie will use industrial waste as fuel, including food waste supplied from Hokuto’s Mie Mushroom Center and waste wood chips and refuse-derived paper and plastic fuel (RPF) sourced primarily from the Chubu region.
The SPC was established by Biomass Power Technologies in July 2021 and received investments from BMecomo, Japan Asia Investment, Haseko, Rexport, and JA Mitsui Lease in 2023. Mizuho Bank arranged a syndicated loan with the participation of eight other banks to provide a portion of the 2.6 billion yen required for the project.
Biomass Power Technologies, a vertically integrated biomass energy company, also operates the 1.99MW Biomass Power Technologies Matsusaka Woody Biomass Power Plant in the same city, which it commissioned in 2018.
