The organisation expects onshore wind farms to account for 38GW of the 2050 goal, with floating and fixed-foundation offshore projects to account for the remainder.

Wind power has been relatively slow in Japan thus far, with just 15MW of new capacity brought online between 1 April 2013 and 28 February 2014, according to government data.

By comparison, roughly 6.27GW of solar was installed throughout Japan over the same period.

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