List of offshore wind farms in Japan

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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
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 Close to shore, survived exposure to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.[3][4][5]
Fukushima Floating Wind Turbine Fukushima Hitachi 2 1 2 November 2013 32% cf, 20km from shore. 66kV floating transformer[6][7][8][9][10]

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 Prefecture 44 Kyuden Mirai Cost 175bn yen ($1.5bn) [11]
Yurihonjo Akita 8~ 70~90 600~700 Under development Renova Renova

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Notes[]

  1. ^ "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"
  2. ^ "Datasheet for Sakata Offshore Wind Farm". LORC Knowledge. 2011-03-14. Retrieved 2011-07-04.
  3. ^ 4C Offshore site page, accessed 11 February 2011
  4. ^ "First domestic open sea wind power plant starts operation," Denki Shimbun. July 23, 2010.[dead link]
  5. ^ Wood, Elisa (2011-05-25). "The Dangers of Energy Generation". Renewable Energy World. Archived from the original on 2011-06-03.
  6. ^ Elaine Kurtenbach. "Japan starts up offshore wind farm near Fukushima" The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 November 2013. Accessed: 11 November 2013.
  7. ^ Fukushima Forward pamphlet
  8. ^ "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.
  9. ^ "Japan Industry and Policy News: Offshore Wind Technology". EU-Japan. 8 August 2016. Archived from the original on 2017-11-24.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ "Japanese land $1.5bn offshore gig". reNEWS - Renewable Energy News. 17 February 2017. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
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