Ibaraki Prefecture Naka City Ichinoseki Mega Solar Power Plant Starts Selling Power In January 2013, Naka City, Ibaraki Prefecture, installed a large-scale solar power plant (mega solar) at the city-owned land (Ichinoseki Retention Pond) in the Fukuda district of the city, and is a business operator that can sell power to TEPCO. We are looking for. This project was started with the aim of making effective use of the regulating pond, which has become a "vacant lot" and has no use except in an emergency, and further allocating it to the city's income. By effectively utilizing the city-owned land, it will be linked to property tax and land lease income, and in addition to being part of the city's own financial resources, it will be possible to supply electricity from the power plant as an emergency power source in the event of a disaster. It is a policy. Naka City has decided to recruit businesses that can install a solar power plant in the upper space while maintaining the function of the regulating pond itself. The recruitment was based on the open recruitment type proposal method, and the recruitment period was from January 19, 2013 to February 1, 2013. In addition, for Naka City, the project period of this power plant is about 15 years, and the output is basically proposed by the applicant, but the output of 1 MW scale is expected, and the winning bidder will be decided in late February of the same year. , The agreement was signed in June, and the operation was scheduled to start in October. Nichiden also participated in this proposal and made a successful bid, and the article was published in the Nihon Kogyo Keizai Shimbun on March 7, 2013 (Thursday). After the successful bid, an agreement was signed between Naka City and Nichiden, and we have constructed a large-scale solar power plant as [Naka City's No. 1 Seki Coordination Pond Solar Power Generation Project]. This time, the power plant was completed, and on March 28, 2014, cooperation was carried out and power generation started. The scale of power generation will be 1.35 MW, and the annual power generation is expected to be 1.384 million kwh. In addition, the opening ceremony of the power plant is scheduled for May 12th (Monday) after Golden Week, and many of our employees are scheduled to attend. http://100zero.jp/2013/01/15/evnews-1291/ Copyright © Nichiden Co., ltd.