{"id":2833,"date":"2010-12-13T15:12:03","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T09:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenworldinvestor.com\/?p=2833"},"modified":"2010-12-13T15:12:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T09:42:03","slug":"another-japanese-giant-mitsui-gets-into-solar-energy-through-tunisian-hybrid-gas-solar-thermal-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/2010\/12\/13\/another-japanese-giant-mitsui-gets-into-solar-energy-through-tunisian-hybrid-gas-solar-thermal-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Japanese Giant Mitsui gets into Solar Energy through Tunisian Hybrid Gas Solar Thermal Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Number of Japanese Companies have been entering the Solar Energy Market following in the footsteps of Japanese solar leaders like Sharp,Kyocera,Mitsubishi and others.<a href=\"http:\/\/greenworldinvestor.com\/2010\/08\/25\/why-is-japanese-technology-giant-toshiba-entering-the-solar-epc-business\/\">Toshiba was a surprising entrant\u00a0 into the Solar EPC<\/a> market with a solar plant planned in Easter Europe.Now Mitsui Engineering and Shipping,one of Japan&#8217;s huge zaibatsus is planning a foray into the solar energy market as well.The Company is being supported in its initiative by METI which will collaborate with the Tunisian government in setting up a combined gas solar hybrid plant.A 5 MW Solar CSP plant will be set up by 2013 to demonstrate the technology.<\/p>\n<p>Note Tunisia is one of the countries in North Africa which would stand to benefit if the <a href=\"http:\/\/greenworldinvestor.com\/2010\/09\/11\/is-the-humongous-solar-thermal-desertec-project-a-white-elephant-doomed-to-fail\/\">Desertec Project<\/a> comes to fruition and could potentially see many gigawatts of Solar Thermal Capacity.Note Europeans are the main forces behind the ambitious Desertec project with a few American ones like First Solar . Japan is probably trying to capture a piece of the pie by pushing one of its giant engineering conglomerates to establish a foothold in the North African Solar CSP market.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE6B90TF20101210?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FUSgreenbusinessNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Green+Business%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Mitsui Engineering plans Tunisia solar plant: sources<\/a><\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>Mitsui  Engineering &amp; Shipbuilding Co plans to build a solar power plant in  Tunisia, targeting a desert solar energy market dominated by European  firms, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.<\/p>\n<p>Mitsui Engineering aims to  build a tower-type concentrated solar power plant (CSP) with 5 megawatts  capacity in El Borma in southern Tunisia, following a feasibility study  planned early next year, under a joint project of the <a title=\"Full coverage of Japan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/places\/japan\">Japan<\/a>ese  and Tunisian governments, said the sources, who requested anonymity  because Mitsui Engineering&#8217;s selection for the project has not yet been  announced.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Number of Japanese Companies have been entering the Solar Energy Market following in the footsteps of Japanese solar leaders like Sharp,Kyocera,Mitsubishi and others.Toshiba was a surprising entrant  into the Solar EPC market with a solar plant planned in Easter Europe.Now Mitsui Engineering and Shipping,one of Japan&#8217;s huge zaibatsus is planning a foray into the solar energy market as well.The Company is being supported in its initiative by METI which will collaborate with the Tunisian government in setting up a combined gas solar hybrid plant.A 5 MW Solar CSP plant will be set up by 2013 to demonstrate the technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[1186,1685,1720,2243,2256,3269,5601,5642],"class_list":["post-2833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csp","tag-competition","tag-electricity","tag-energy","tag-government","tag-green","tag-jv","tag-toshiba","tag-tunisia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}