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Solar Power Plant

Solar can provide a productive and environmentally friendly use for defunct golf courses, characterized by expansive land mass, high sun exposure, and a low concentration of shade trees.

Kyocera, Old golf course in Kyoto prefecture

Overdevelopment of golf properties during the real-estate boom of the 1990’s and 2000’s has led to hundreds of idle courses today that are now under analysis for repurposing or redevelopment.

Many of these properties are now being reconsidered as sites for new housing development, parkland and a wide range of other commercial uses, including solar farms. Solar can provide a particularly productive and environmentally friendly use for defunct golf courses, which are characterized by expansive land mass, high sun exposure, and a low concentration of shade trees.

The Japanese Kyocera corporation, in joint venture with other Japanese companies, is now constructing two new solar plants on abandoned golf courses; one in the Kyoto prefecture and a second one in Kagoshima Prefecture.

Top: Kyocera Corporation, old golf course in Kyoto prefecture site of a 23MW solar power plant under construction. Above: Kyocera Corporation, 3MW Project in Miyazaki Prefecture (1.2MW & 1.8MW plants)

Kyocera Corporation, Rendering of the Kanoya Osaki Solar Hills Solar Power Plant in Japan

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Solar Power Plant

Solar can provide a productive and environmentally friendly use for defunct golf courses, characterized by expansive land mass, high sun exposure, and a low concentration of shade trees.

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