Japan’s largest offshore wind farm comes online
Japan’s largest offshore wind farm comes online | Windpower Monthly
Japanese utility Jera and Green Power Investment Corporation (GPI) have commissioned the 112MW Ishikari Bay New Port project, which is now Japan’s largest operational offshore wind farm.
The project consists of 14 of Siemens Gamesa’s SG 8.0-167 DD turbines that are certified to withstand typhoons and seismic activities.
It is located off the west coast of the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.
All of the electricity generated will be supplied to the Hokkaido Electric Power Network.
Jera – a joint venture of utilities Tokyo Electric Power Corporation and Chubu Electric Power – along with NTT Anode Energy, signed a deal to buy into GPI in May. With this deal, Jera bought into the Ishikai Bay New Port project.
Japan aims to have 10GW of operational offshore wind capacity by 2030 and up to 45GW by 2040. It currently has 289MW of operational offshore wind capacity, according to Windpower Intelligence, the research and data division of Windpower Monthly.
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