Today (5/16), an opening ceremony was held in Shiroishi City, Miyagi Prefecture to commemorate "Miyagi Shiroishi Power Station" (a small hydro power plant for which construction was completed in April 2018 and commercial operation began on April 9th, 2018) which is operated and managed by Marubeni Corporation's (hereinafter, "Marubeni") fully owned subsidiary, Mibugawa Power Company.
This hydro power plant project included the installation of a water turbine generator in the water pipe that stretches from "Nanbuyama Water purification plant" to a low ground regulating pond, which is managed by Miyagi Prefecture Sennan-Senen Regional Water Utility Office*. The plant. The plant. The plant. The plant. The plant. The plant. The plant. The plant. The plant. The plant. The plant will generate power via "water utility utilization type hydroelectric power generation" which makes use of water head and discharge from the purification plant to the regulating pond. Expected annual power generation will cover the annual electric power consumption of 150 ordinary households and the generated power will be sold for over 20 years under Japan's feed-in-tariff scheme.
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