Akihabara News (Tokyo) — Vestas Japan has announced that the first offshore turbine has been installed at the Akita Noshiro Offshore Wind Project, Japan’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm.
The plan calls for a total of thirty-three 4.2MW Vestas wind turbines, totaling 140MW of capacity, to be installed off the coast of Akita Prefecture. One group will be near Akita Port and the other near Noshiro Port.
This offshore wind farm is set to power the annual consumption of nearly 130,000 homes once it becomes fully operational near the end of this year.
The developer, Akita Offshore Wind Corporation, is a consortium of thirteen Japanese firms led by the Marubeni Corporation.
The electricity generated by the farm will be supplied to the Tohoku Electric Power Company, which holds a twenty-year power purchase agreement.
The completion of this project is expected to mark a significant milestone in Japan’s transition toward renewable energy.
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