Akihabara News (Tokyo) — A groundbreaking ceremony was held yesterday for the Abukuma Wind Power Plant, which will be one of the largest onshore wind farms in Japan when it opens in spring 2025.
The farm is located across four municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture: Tamura city, Okuma town, Namie town, and Katsurao village–areas close to the site of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant which suffered a triple meltdown in March 2011.
The Abukuma wind farm will consist of 46 General Electric 3.2MW turbines, which have a total height of about 148 meters, at four locations along the boundaries of the municipalities. The farm will thus have a total installed capacity of 147MW, which is equivalent to the power consumption of about 120,000 households.
The developer is Fukushima Reconstruction Wind Power Co., which is backed by nine companies led by Sumitomo Corporation and JR East Energy Development. It was selected as business operator in 2017 by a public offering from the prefectural government.
The power generated by the wind farm will be sold via a transmission line installed by Fukushima Transmission Co.
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