A Eurus Energy wind farm in Hokkaido, Japan

JWPA pushes plan to raise Japan wind capacity to 36GW by 2030

The Japan Wind Power Association (JWPA) has proposed a number of strategies to facilitate the development of up to 36.2GW of capacity by 2030, far higher than the government’s current target of roughly 10GW over the same time period.

3 March 2016 4:05 GMT Updated 28 September 2016 9:29 GMT

By Brian Publicover in Tokyo

“To hit 36GW, we need to take a big leap,” JWPA president Manabu Takamoto at the World Smart Energy Week (WSEW) conference in Tokyo this week.

Japan installed just 244MW of wind in 2015, bringing nationwide, cumulative installed capacity to about 3.1GW at present, according to JWPA data.

“We haven’t done well enough so far,” Takamoto lamented. “Investment is still limited in Japan.

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