A fleet of electric boats could build new floating offshore wind farms in Japan that deploy new cost-cutting tensile leg platform technology, eventually.
Japan’s offshore wind market is forecast to grow to over 6GW of capacity, supported by ongoing auctions of seabed acreage and important streamlining of the permitting process.
While the development of the Japanese wind market has stalled in recent years, it now appears to be gaining momentum, with the government recently revising its guidelines for the second round of offshore wind auctions.
The second round of auctions will see the seabed rights to 1.8GW of capacity awarded to developers later this year, with 700MW to be awarded off Niigata, 692MW set to be awarded of Akita and 424MW off Nagasaki.
