540MW Wind Farm for Hokkaido

Akihabara News (Tokyo) — Toyota Tsusho, a Nagoya-based trading company, has begun construction of a 540MW wind farm on the northern tip of Hokkaido, according to a report by the Nikkei.

While the companies involved in this project have yet to release their own information, the Nikkei states that the partners aim to send some of this electricity to energy-hungry Tokyo.

Aside from Toyota Tsusho, the other partners are Cosmo Eco Power, a Tokyo-based wind power firm, and Looop, a Tokyo-based electric power retail business.

Power generated at the plant, according to the Nikkei, will be sold to major power companies under a feed-in tariff scheme, and it will include a large-scale battery storage system.

This project, aiming to begin operations next year, will double Hokkaido’s wind-power capacity.

The report does not explain how the partners intend to overcome the low-capacity electricity transmission link between Hokkaido and Honshu.

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