Leiko Toyoda, a planning manager for Komaihaltec’s clean energy division, tells Recharge that the Tokyo-based steel-structure specialist — which emerged from relative obscurity last month by installing Bhutan’s first wind farm — will erect two of its KWT300 turbines on the island of Niijima at some point between September and November.
Takaoka Toko — a unit of Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) — is leading the five-year demonstration project, which will pair Komaihaltec’s turbines with PV modules, two diesel generators and a power conversion system (PCS) to learn how to more effectively integrate renewables into the grid.
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