SunEdison touts $4.6bn plan for Japanese solar farms

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Solar developer confirms it is in talks with government officials over plans for a new wave of solar farms

US solar developer SunEdison has confirmed it is working on plans to deploy 1GW of new solar capacity in Japan at an estimated cost of Y350bn ($4.6bn). Following reports on the plans in the Nikkei newspaper,...

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