japanese company care sara has built a new solar plant floating in the middle of a reservoir it's an answer to the country's perpetual problem of land scarcity the solar array comprising more than fifty thousand panels covers eighteen hectares of a dam in chiba prefecture a kyocera spokesman hint of the plant could be the first of many like it. there are so many reservoirs here. we hope that this project will let us expand our business throughout japan by making use of them. the operator claims it's the biggest solar power plant on water in japan and you will output is projected at more than sixteen million kilowatt hours that's enough to power around five thousand households for a year. the plant began operating earlier this month two years behind schedule. french multinational seal a tab which developed the technology says the cooling effect of water on the solar