{"id":27484,"date":"2026-05-23T08:53:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T08:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/27484\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T08:53:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T08:53:38","slug":"japans-largest-woody-biomass-power-plant-operating-on-chita-peninsula-aichi-prefecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/27484\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s largest woody biomass power plant operating on Chita peninsula, Aichi prefecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nA 10-minute drive from the Meitetsu Chita Handa Station took me to the plant. As I passed through the plant&#8217;s entrance, I was stunned by the greater-than-expected scale and presence of the building and the vastness of the premises. Lined up on the 4.3-hectares premises were a boiler, three biomass tanks, a cooling tower and an administration building. The height of the boiler building is about 54 meters, which is equivalent to that of Nagoya Castle. Including the highest exhaust stack, the height exceeds 80 meters. This plant is operated and administered by a subsidiary of Summit Energy, Summit Handa Power. Trucks loaded with 20 tons of wood chips arrive at the plant one after another. A truck dumper discharges wood chips into the receiving port. Wood chips, from which foreign matter is removed as they travel along the transport conveyer, will be kept in the biomass tank for several days before being transported to the boiler. At the Handa Biomass Power Plant, all facilities, including the truck dumper, the conveyer that transports the wood chips, and the tanks, are closed systems to prevent chips from being scattered throughout the neighborhood. The Central Operation Room is staffed by three operators at all times. They monitor and manage the status of power generation around the clock so that in the event of any problems, such as a failure in the fuel conveyance system, recovery work will be started immediately. If the power plant is shut down, it takes at least three days to resume operations. The plant is therefore making daily efforts to supply electricity in a stable manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 10-minute drive from the Meitetsu Chita Handa Station took me to the plant. As I passed through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[4464,217,215,2022,214,21727,216,2025,2024,2023],"class_list":["post-27484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-aichi-prefecture","tag-business","tag-business-of-japan","tag-enriching","tag-japans-business","tag-japans-largest-woody-biomass-power-plant-operating-on-chita-peninsula","tag-japanese-business","tag-sumitomo","tag-sumitomo-corp","tag-sumitomo-corporation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}