Vestas has secured a 32MW turbine order with Toda Corporation for the Azumakogen wind farm in Fukushima prefecture, Japan.
The project will be constructed by Toda Corporation and is set to feature nine V105-3.45 MW turbines in 3.MW operating mode. Towers will measure in at 84m.
Delivery of the turbines will begin in the second quarter of 2022, with commissioning scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2022.
The project is part-owned by Japan Renewable Energy Corporation, Fukushima Mirai Kenkyukai, General Foundation and Shinobuyama Fukushima Power. Tags
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In October of last year, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced that Japan was shifting course. The country which in 2020 came in a miserable 45th out of 61 countries in addressing climate change would now commit itself to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, a goal the country had once hoped to achieve sometime between 2050 and 2100.
That Tokyo’s record on climate change has been so dismal might surprise observers who associate Japan with technological innovation. But almost a third of the country’s electricity derives from coal the single largest contributor to anthropogenic climate change. Worse yet, Japan is currently constructing 15 new coal-fired plants and is planning another seven, all to be finished within the next five years. Its carbon tax is a mere $3 per ton of carbon dioxide, compared with $33 in France and $126 in Sweden.