Eco-business / Social Venture

November 6, 2002

 

Wind Power Generation to Begin at Tokyo Bay in Spring of 2003

Keywords: Climate Change Eco-business / Social Venture Non-manufacturing industry Renewable Energy 

Japan's Electric Power Development Co. and Toyota Tsusho Corporation established a joint venture, called J-WIND TOKIO, on June 25, 2002. This company was founded to promote a pilot project of wind power generation that the Tokyo Metropolitan Government plans at waterfront areas along Tokyo Bay.

J-WIND TOKIO will install two 850 kW wind turbines manufactured by Denmark's Vestas Wind Systems A/S at the Inner Central Breakwater reclamation area of Tokyo Bay, close to Odaiba, now a popular tourist spot. The construction work is scheduled to start this fall, for a start-up of operations at the end of this fiscal year.

The company estimates that the operating rate of the wind turbines will be 16 percent at this site, where the annual average wind speed is about 5.4 meters per second at a height of 44 meters. Annual electricity production is expected to be approximately 2.5 million kWh, enough to power around 800 households, all of which will be sold to Tokyo Electric Power Co. The project cost will total about 330 million yen (about U.S.$2.7 million).


- Wind Farm to Appear at Tokyo Waterfront (Related JFS article)
http://www.japanfs.org/db/56-j

Posted: 2002/11/06 08:04:26 PM
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