A solar power generation firm based in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, is pursuing a new line of business, tapping into a renovated vacant house as an inn for foreign visitors, especially large families.
Kingdom Solar Co., which sells solar power systems, hopes tourism can be a viable source of revenue, at a time when renewable energy policies are under a rethink and the brakes are being put on the expansion of the solar energy market.
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