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WIND ENERGY IN JAPAN

July 11, 2019

It has been thousands of years for human being to use wind energy for milling grain, pumping water and other mechanical power applications. However, it is by means of wind turbines that people now usually think of generating electricity on significant scale with pollution-free wind energy, which firstly turned up in 1887 in Scotland. Experiencing the rapid development of tens of years, this so-called modern wind energy has become one of the most accessible renewable energies in the world. As far as Japanese wind energy market, the new installation capacity of wind was 261MW on 17 project sites, surveyed by the Japanese Wind Power Association (JWPA) [3]. There were no new offshore wind turbines starting operation in Japan in 2018. The Japanese government expects to put more than 1.5GW of new offshore wind power in operation at more than 5 sea area by 2030, along with the latest offshore wind promotion law promulgated on 7th December [6]. Furthermore, the JWPA has plans to increase wind power capacity to 36GW in total by 2030, consisting 27GW onshore, 6GW fixed offshore and 4GW floating offshore.

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WIND ENERGY IN JAPAN