Kyushu Electric Power Co. said Thursday it will launch a geothermal power generation project in Indonesia with trading house Itochu Corp.
This marks the first overseas geothermal power generation project by a Japanese electric power company. Kyushu Electric said a power plant will begin operating as early as late 2016 and all of the electricity generated there will be sold to an Indonesian state-run utility.
Construction of the plant, with a capacity of about 330,000 kw, will begin around April 2014 on the island of Sumatra, according to Kyushu Electric.