This is a list of offshore wind farms in Japan. Japan intends to announce winners of a second contract round for 1.8 GW of capacity in March 2024. [1]
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 [2] | ||||
Sakata Offshore Wind Farm | Yamagata | Vestas V80 | 2.0 | 8 (3 onshore) | 16 | [3] | ||||
Wind Power Kamisu | Ibaraki | Subaru 80 | 2 | 7 | 14 | January 2008 [4] | Mitsuuroko Green Energy CO [5] | Close to shore, survived exposure to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. [6] [7] [8] | ||
Fukushima Floating Wind Turbine | Fukushima | Hitachi | 2 | 1 | 2 | November 2013 | 32% cf, 20 km from shore. 66kV floating transformer [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] | |||
Noshiro&Akita | Akita | Vestas | 4.2 | 33 | 140 | December 2022 | Marubeni | Tohoku Electric Power | [14] [15] | |
Ishikari Bay Wind Farm | Hokkaido | Siemens Gamesa 8.0-167 DD | 8.0 | 14 | 112 | 2023 | JERA | Close to shore. 180 MWh battery. [16] |
Wind farm project | 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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Kitakyushu | Fukuoka | 44 | Kyuden Mirai | Cost 175bn yen ($1.5bn) [17] | ||||||
Yurihonjo | Akita | GE | 12.6 | 65 | 819 | 2030 | Mitsubishi | Chubu | JPY 12/kWh [18] | |
Noshiro | Akita | GE | 12.6 | 38 | 478 | 2028 | Mitsubishi | Chubu | JPY 13/kWh [18] | |
Choshi | Chiba | GE | 12.6 | 31 | 390 | 2028 | Mitsubishi | JPY 16/kWh [18] |