TOKYO —Showa Shell Sekiyu KK is planning to set up one of the world’s biggest factories for manufacturing Solar Power Generation panels in 2011 at a cost of about 100 billion yen, sources familiar with the matter said Wednesday.

The combined power Generation capacity of solar panels produced in a year at the factory would be as large as 1,000 megawatts, which matches that of a nuclear reactor, they said.

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