Lawson also purchased Solar Frontier’s online monitoring technology for the first 1,000 stores.
The 150W modules will be made at Solar Frontier’s 900 MW capacity Kunitomi factory. Solar Frontier’s “Frontier Monitor” will allow Lawson customers and anyone with an Internet connection to observe the system output of any Lawson store in real time.
“Our proposition to Lawson was consistent with what we propose to all our customers,” said Shigeaki Kameda, President of Solar Frontier. “The new feed-in tariff in Japan, like all feed in tariffs, is based on the amount of kilowatt hours you return to the grid, and Solar Frontier’s CIS technology is about delivering more kilowatt hours. Our modules are developed to deliver higher energy output in the real world plus the highest standard of quality from Solar Frontier’s Kunitomi factory in Miyazaki, Japan.”
Lawson plans to install solar panels at 1,000 of its domestic stores this fiscal year and 1,000 next year. Each store will install 12 kW for an estimated average overall yearly power output of 11,000kWh per store.
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