The wind farm in Wakkanai City and Toyotomi Town, Hokkaido, is the third operational farm of Eurus Energy’s Dohoku wind power generation project, which will see a total of 107 turbines installed across six wind farms in the northern Hokkaido area. It follows the 47.5 MW Hamasato and the 80 MW Kawaminami wind farms, which came online last year.  

The Kawanishi project consists of 15 Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy wind turbines with an output of 4.3 MW. All electricity generated, which is expected to be enough to power approximately 47,000 households, will be sold to Hokkaido Electric Power Network. The project will reduce CO₂ emissions by an estimated 73,000 t/y.

Meanwhile, the company has also finished construction of the 68.8 MW north section of the Ashikawa wind farm in Toyotomi Town, Hokkaido. The Ashikawa project consists of two subsections (north and south) with a total capacity of 128.8 MW. A total of 16 Siemens Gamesa wind turbines with an output of 4.3 MW have been installed on the north section of the site. Once both the north and south sections are completed in 2025, Ashikawa will be the largest wind farm onshore Japan and is expected to reduce CO₂ emissions by 146,000 t/y.

Shiratori Battery Park online

In other news, Eurus Energy has announced that the Eurus Shiratori Battery Park, which has an output of 1.5 MW and a storage capacity of 4.58 MWh, has started commercial operations in Tagawa City, Fukuoka Prefecture. The grid storage batteries are connected to the power grid of Kyushu Electric Power Transmission and Distribution Company and will be used for power adjustment to help stabilise the supply of electricity through power market transactions.

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