List of offshore wind farms in Japan
This is a list of operational offshore wind farms in Japan.
List
Wind farm | Prefecture | Wind turbine model | Unit power (MW) | No. of Units | Total (MW) | Commissioning date | Developer | Owner / operator | Coordinates | Notes and references |
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Setana Wind Farm | Hokkaido | Vestas V47 | 0.6 | 2 | 1.2 | Close to shore[1] | ||||
Sakata Offshore Wind Farm | Yamagata | Vestas V80 | 2.0 | 8 (3 onshore) | 16 | [2] | ||||
Wind Power Kamisu | Ibaraki | Subaru 80 | 2 | 7 | 14 | January 2008[3] | Mitsuuroko Green Energy CO[4] | Close to shore, survived exposure to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.[5][6][7] | ||
Fukushima Floating Wind Turbine | Fukushima | Hitachi | 2 | 1 | 2 | November 2013 | 32% cf, 20 km from shore. 66kV floating transformer[8][9][10][11][12] | |||
Noshiro&Akita | Akita | Vestas | 4.2 | 33 | 140 | December 2022 | Marubeni | Tohoku Electric Power | [13][14] | |
List of projects
Wind farm project | Prefecture | Wind turbine model | Unit power (MW) | No. of Units | Total (MW) | Commissioning date | Developer | Owner / operator | Coordinates | Notes and references |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kitakyushu | Fukuoka | 44 | Kyuden Mirai | Cost 175bn yen ($1.5bn) [15] | ||||||
Yurihonjo | Akita | GE | 12.6 | 65 | 819 | 2030 | Mitsubishi | Chubu | JPY 12/kWh[16] | |
Noshiro | Akita | GE | 12.6 | 38 | 478 | 2028 | Mitsubishi | Chubu | JPY 13/kWh[16] | |
Choshi | Chiba | GE | 12.6 | 31 | 390 | 2028 | Mitsubishi | JPY 16/kWh[16] |
See also
Notes
- "Offshore wind farms planned," Japan Times, May 9, 2010; retrieved 13 Dec 2010; Kawasaki Heavy Industries, "Japan’s First Offshore Wind Power System Delivered to Hokkaido"
- "Datasheet for Sakata Offshore Wind Farm". LORC Knowledge. 2011-03-14. Retrieved 2011-07-04.
- "神栖風力発電所|発電所のご紹介|会社情報|ミツウロコグリーンエネルギー株式会社". 2021-07-15. Archived from the original on 2021-07-15. Retrieved 2023-07-13.
- "発電所のご紹介|会社情報|ミツウロコグリーンエネルギー株式会社". www.mitsuurokogreenenergy.com (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2021-07-15. Retrieved 2023-07-13.
- 4C Offshore site page, accessed 11 February 2011
- "First domestic open sea wind power plant starts operation," Denki Shimbun. July 23, 2010.
- Wood, Elisa (2011-05-25). "The Dangers of Energy Generation". Renewable Energy World. Archived from the original on 2011-06-09.
- Elaine Kurtenbach. "Japan starts up offshore wind farm near Fukushima" The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 November 2013. Accessed: 11 November 2013.
- Fukushima Forward pamphlet
- "Fukushima wind turbine, symbol of Tohoku earthquake recovery, to be removed due to high maintenance costs". The Japan Times Online. 27 October 2018. Archived from the original on 2019-11-05.
- "Japan Industry and Policy News: Offshore Wind Technology". EU-Japan. 8 August 2016. Archived from the original on 2017-11-24.
- Radtke, Katrin (2018-08-10). "Setback for Japanese Offshore Wind Efforts | windfair". w3.windfair.net. Archived from the original on 2020-03-11. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
- "First Vestas Nacelles Reach Akita Port in Japan". Offshore Wind. 28 December 2021.
- Lee, Andrew (23 December 2022). "New era for Japanese sea power as first large-scale offshore wind farm enters service | Recharge". Recharge | Latest renewable energy news.
- "Japanese land $1.5bn offshore gig". reNEWS - Renewable Energy News. 17 February 2017. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
- "Japan selects winners in tender for 1.7 GW of offshore wind". Renewablesnow.com. 27 December 2021. Archived from the original on 27 December 2021.
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