Etrion Corporation announced a strategic partnership with Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation for the development, financing, construction, ownership and operation of utility-scale solar power plants in Japan. Etrion and HHT have signed a development agreement and have been working closely together for more than one year to form a joint development team. The partnership is developing a pipeline that is expected to reach at least 100 megawatts-peak (MWp) of solar power generation facilities under construction or shovel-ready in Japan by 2015.

Both parties have been providing the key functions required to successfully execute projects, such as local content, relationships with utilities and banks, engineering, procurement and construction, non-recourse project finance as well as operations, maintenance and asset management services. Etrion and HHT plan to start construction of the first solar power plant in 2014.