Will Plan for 1,000-Megawatt Offshore Windfarm for Fukushima be Model for Japan?
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 03:13 AM EST
JOHANNESBURG--January 18, 2013--Written by Richard Finlayson, Senior International Editor for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The Fukushima prefecture in Japan is planning for complete energy self-sufficiency by 2040, using only renewable power sources. The plan is to build 143 wind turbines by 2020 on platforms off the coast of Fukushima, where the catastrophic tsunami and earthquake damaged the Daiichi nuclear reactor in March 2011.