Google signs Japan solar farm deals with CEC, Shizen Energy, Nikkei reports

Google has entered into an agreement with Japanese renewable energy providers who will build solar farms dedicated to providing electricity to the company’s data centers in Japan, Nikkei Asia’s Shin Watanabe and Taiyo Suzuki report. Google recently signed corporate power purchase agreements with Clean Energy Connect and Shizen Energy, under which CEC will invest Y10B through 2026 to build roughly 800 solar farms that will provide about 70,000 kilowatts of capacity and Shizen Energy will develop a solar project dedicated to Google in the Kanto region, according to the report.