According to the World Wind Energy Association, Japan accounts for only 1.6% of the world’s wind power market, which is expected to rise by a record 30,300 MW of installed capacity this year to a total of 152,000 MW.
NEDO, established by Japanese government in 1980 to develop new oil-alternative energy technologies, said in the report that the country’s wind power installed capacity totaled 1,854 MW as of March 2009, with 1,517 turbines.
