SoftBank’s Bid to Build a Solar-Power Empire Founders www.wsj.com

For years, SoftBank Group Corp. Chief Executive Masayoshi Son has talked about building a global renewable-energy empire capable of carrying solar power across continents.
The Japanese investor sought deals of immense scale in Saudi Arabia, India and beyond.
He promised to spend hundreds of billions of dollars tackling one of the world’s toughest challenges—meeting its growing energy demand with less carbon-intensive sources.