The ministry asked for ¥3.19bn to fund offshore wind R&D. It also filed for ¥31bn to fund research on floating offshore wind technologies, up from ¥9.5bn this year.
In July, a consortium led by METI, Marubeni and the University of Tokyo deployed a 2MW Hitachi floating turbine 20km off the coast of Fukushima prefectureto test floating wind systems over a five-year period.
METI
