Hanwha Q Cells Co., the world's leading solar cell maker, said Tuesday it will team up with Japanese trading company Marubeni Corp. to build a solar power plant in Japan's nuclear-hit Fukushima area. 

Hanwha Q Cells signed a deal with Marubeni to provide 190,000 solar modules to build the 52.5-megawatt solar power plant in Fukushima prefecture by June 2017.

The plant will be built on one of the most severely affected regions of the 2011 tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster to provide much-needed electricity with an eco-friendly energy source.

The Japanese government picked the wasted farmland to convert it into a solar plant and Marubeni was chosen for the development.

Last year, Hanwha Q Cells supplied 26.2 megawatts worth of its modules to the Sunny Solar Fukushima Central Plant, which is one of the largest solar farms in the region. (Yonhap)