TOKYO: Japan's wind power body has set a mid-century goal to increase capacity to 140 gigawatts from less than 5 GW 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.
"We need to map out a clear goal to attract foreign suppliers of wind farms so that they would invest in Japan and build local supply chains here," JWPA President Jin Kato told a news conference. As of end-2022, Japan's less than 5 GW of installed wind power capacity included only 0.14 GW offshore. The JWPA said creating an internationally competitive wind power industry required collaboration between the public and private sectors to speed up progress.
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