{"id":60099,"date":"2015-06-29T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=60099"},"modified":"2015-06-23T16:47:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T15:47:44","slug":"worlds-largest-offshore-wind-turbine-unveiled-in-fukushima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/06\/worlds-largest-offshore-wind-turbine-unveiled-in-fukushima\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Largest Offshore Wind Turbine Unveiled in Fukushima"},"content":{"rendered":"

22 Jun 2015 – <\/em>Japan officially unveiled<\/a>\u00a0today its 7\u00a0megawatt (MW) wind turbine, the world\u2019s largest offshore turbine to date. It\u00a0is slated to be operational by September.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/yumisophia\/status\/612798320998625281\/photo\/1<\/p>\n

The Fukushima Wind Project<\/a>, located about 12 miles off the coast of Fukushima, installed\u00a0a 2\u00a0MW wind turbine in November 2013. The turbines are part of a pilot project led by Marubeni Co<\/a>. and funded by the Japanese government with research and support from several public and private organizations, including the University of Tokyo and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.<\/p>\n

The new turbine, which will tower 220 meters above the sea, will transmit electricity to the grid via submarine cable, according to The Japan Times<\/a><\/em>. The government has allocated 50 billion yen ($405 million) for the project, which allows turbines to float in areas that are \u201ctoo deep for traditional towers fixed to the seafloor,\u201d says Bloomberg News<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0There are plans to add a third floating turbine with a generating capacity of 5\u00a0MW later in the year, which will bring\u00a0the total output capacity of the project to 14 MW.<\/p>\n

Offshore turbines, which have garnered a lot of\u00a0support in Japan after the Fukushima<\/a> disaster, \u201cenjoy the benefit of more stable wind than onshore models, and are more efficient because they are not hampered by the constraints posed by land and transportation,\u201d says\u00a0The Japan Times.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cCountries are exploring floating offshore wind technology and Japan is in a sense at the same level with Norway and Portugal,\u201d which have about 2\u00a0MW of offshore wind generating capacity, Yasuhiro Matsuyama, a trade ministry official in charge of clean energy projects, told Bloomberg News<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In the U.S., Deepwater Wind broke ground (or should I say broke water) this spring on the country\u2019s first offshore wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island<\/a>. When it is finished, the five turbines will\u00a0have a generating capacity of 30 MW.<\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 ecowatch.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

22 Jun 2015 – Japan officially unveiled today its 7 megawatt (MW) wind turbine, the world\u2019s largest offshore turbine to date. It is slated to be operational by September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}