Japan solar container 2018

Kawasaki Heavy Industries stunned the maritime world last April with their solar container carrier prototype. Dubbed "Solar Ark 1," this 240-TEU vessel uses bifacial panels that capture reflected light from the ocean surface. Kyoto/London − Kyocera Corporation (President: Hideo Tanimoto; herein “Kyocera”) and Tokyo Century Corporation (President & CEO: Shunichi Asada; herein “Tokyo Century”) announced today that Kyocera TCL Solar LLC (herein “Kyocera TCL Solar”) has started operation of Japan’s largest*1 13. The PV+storage projects have been proliferating across the globe and a technology that was considered emerging in the not-so-distant past, seems to no longer be one. Tokyo, November 27, 2018 – Subaru Corporation has announced its plan to install Japan’s largest-scale*1 captive-consumption solar power system at the company’s Gunma Oizumi Plant, where Subaru automobiles’ horizontally-opposed Boxer engines and transmissions are built. Did you know the solar container ship concept was first proposed in 2008—right when oil prices hit $147/barrel? Yet here we are, 15 years later, still watching cargo vessels belch out 3% of global CO₂ emissions annually.