Mori Building offers solar-powered phone-charging at Toranomon Hills

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Mori Building, a leading urban developer, has opened a free solar-powered mobile phone-charging station, called City Charge, at the Toranomon Hills complex in Tokyo.

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City Charge, which accords with municipal Tokyo’s efforts to create a smart-energy city through expanded use of renewable energy, follows the opening of the city’s first solar-powered charging station at Tokyo Tower last month.

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City Charge stations, Japan’s first public-private initiative for free solar-powered charging, are being operated jointly by Tokyo Environmental Public Service Corporation and Sharp Corporation.

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The station in Toranomon Hills, located in the Step Garden, will be operated for a year. It generates enough power to charge up 60 phones (15 min/charge) per day. The charging device is a new model featuring a cover that deploys automatically as required, enabling users to recharge their phones even during rainy weather. Surplus power is held in a storage battery to allow charging at night or on cloudy days. The station also can be used as an emergency source of electrical power for purposes other than charging phones.

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Mori’s various Hills facilities in Tokyo, which function as “cities within cities,” provide ideal environments for field testing advanced products and services for cities of the future.

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