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Article: Japan: Kawasaki Heavy Plans New Battery Plant to Tap Renewables Demand.
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- November 6, 2009
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Byline: prashant03
Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd., a Japanese maker of trains, plans to build a battery factory by 2020 to tap demand from railways and renewable-energy projects.
The 50-megawatt-hour plant in Hyogo prefecture, western Japan, would increase Kawasaki Heavy s capacity eight-fold and may cost several billion yen, Yuichi Miyamoto, head of a new battery division, said in an interview. The Kobe-based company is also considering building a second production line with the same capacity, he said.
Demand for the batteries, about as big as filing cabinets, is set to rise as companies including East Japan Railway Co. switch from diesel to ...