List of offshore wind farms in Japan

This is a list of operational offshore wind farms in Japan.

List

Wind farm	Prefecture	Wind turbine model	Unit power (MW)	No. of Units	Total (MW)	Commissioning date	Developer	Owner / operator	Coordinates	Notes and references
Setana Wind Farm	Hokkaido	Vestas V47	0.6	2	1.2					Close to shore[1]
Sakata Offshore Wind Farm	Yamagata	Vestas V80	2.0	8 (3 onshore)	16					[2]
Wind Power Kamisu	Ibaraki	Subaru 80	2	7	14					Close to shore, survived exposure to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.[3][4][5]
Fukushima Floating Wind Turbine	Fukushima	Hitachi	2	1	2	November 2013				32% cf, 20km from shore. 66kV floating transformer[6][7][8][9][10]

List of projects

Wind farm project	Prefecture	Wind turbine model	Unit power (MW)	No. of Units	Total (MW)	Commissioning date	Developer	Owner / operator	Coordinates	Notes and references
Kitakyushu	Fukuoka Prefecture			44				Kyuden Mirai		Cost 175bn yen ($1.5bn) [11]
Yurihonjo	Akita		8~	70~90	600~700	Under development	Renova	Renova

See also

• Wind power in Japan
• List of wind farms
• List of offshore wind farms
• Lists of offshore wind farms by country
• Wind power

Notes

1. "Offshore wind farms planned," Japan Times, May 9, 2010; retrieved 13 Dec 2010; Kawasaki Heavy Industries, "Japan’s First Offshore Wind Power System Delivered to Hokkaido"
2. "Datasheet for Sakata Offshore Wind Farm". LORC Knowledge. 2011-03-14. Retrieved 2011-07-04.
3. 4C Offshore site page, accessed 11 February 2011
4. "First domestic open sea wind power plant starts operation," Denki Shimbun. July 23, 2010.
5. Wood, Elisa (2011-05-25). "The Dangers of Energy Generation". Renewable Energy World. Archived from the original on 2011-06-03.
6. Elaine Kurtenbach. "Japan starts up offshore wind farm near Fukushima" The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 November 2013. Accessed: 11 November 2013.
7. Fukushima Forward pamphlet
8. "Fukushima wind turbine, symbol of Tohoku earthquake recovery, to be removed due to high maintenance costs". The Japan Times Online. 27 October 2018. Archived from the original on 2019-11-05.
9. "Japan Industry and Policy News: Offshore Wind Technology". EU-Japan. 8 August 2016. Archived from the original on 2017-11-24.
10. Radtke, Katrin (2018-08-10). "Setback for Japanese Offshore Wind Efforts | windfair". w3.windfair.net. Archived from the original on 2020-03-11. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
11. "Japanese land $1.5bn offshore gig". reNEWS - Renewable Energy News. 17 February 2017. Retrieved 20 February 2017.