Japan’s wind industry aims to provide a third of the country’s power by 2050

The JWPA said Japan should increase its offshore wind power generation capacity to 100GW by 2050 to help reduce emissions. - Photo from Straits Times/ANN

TOKYO, May 30 (Reuters): Japan’s wind power body has set a mid-century goal to increase capacity to 140 gigawatts (GW), from less than 5GW now, it said on Monday, to meet a third of the country’s electricity demand and help it to hit its 2050 carbon neutrality target.

Offshore wind is meant to be central to Japan’s expansion of renewable energy, but progress has been delayed, and a government goal of up to 45GW of offshore wind power in 2040 looks less ambitious than the new Japan Wind Power Association (JWPA) targets.