Twenty-five kilometres out to sea from the site of Japan’s 2011 Fukishima-Daiichi nuclear disaster, plans are gathering pace to build a two-unit floating wind power project. Though at 30MW small in size at a time when international energy developers are gearing up to build gigawatt-scale arrays in the world’s major maritime provinces, the pilot could be disproportionately influential to both the emerging sector as well as Japan’s wider industrial future.
Return to Fukushima: the floating wind pilot that could re-energise Japan's offshore voyage
A decade after the island nation's pioneering demo project off stricken nuclear plant reached first power, Tokyo Gas believes new 30MW array could be a 'small project with big value' as country's government plans gigascale arrays, writes Darius Snieckus
3 April 2023 22:05 GMT
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14 October 2023 13:14 GMT
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