Sumitomo starts up Sakata biomass power plant

摘要

Japanese trading firm Sumitomo has started commercial operations of a new 50MW biomass power plant at Sakata in Yamagata prefecture, adding to its existing two operational biomass power units. Summit Sakata Power, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sumitomo, began power generation at Sakata on 23 August, nearly six years after the project started up in December 2012.