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100MW Japanese Kashima Port project starts construction

4C Offshore | Lewis Holdsworth
By: Lewis Holdsworth 04/03/2015 4C Offshore staff
Phase one of the 125MW Kashima Port project is to start construction of the onshore substation by end of this year, followed by start of monopile and turbine installation in 2016.

All 20 of the 5MW turbines are expected to be generating power by the second half of 2017, a second 25MW phase is planned to follow at a later date.

The Wind Power Energy Co (owned by Komatsu Yamazaki and SB Energy corp) project was given approval on 27th February 2015.

Cost of the 100MW first phase is an estimated 53bn JPY (397m EUR, or 3.97m EUR /MW), the project will run for 20 years.

In March 2014 a government panel approved a 64% increase in the 20-year offshore wind feed in tariff to JPY 36/kWh (EUR 0.263/kWh) from a level on par with onshore wind of JPY 23.1/kWh (EUR 0.17/kWh).

The project abuts the 125MW Marubeni project to the south.

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