Progress in practical application of floating offshore wind turbines
| 2007 | Joint research by Associate Professor Tomoaki Utsunomiya of Kyoto University (currently professor at Kyushu University) and Toda Corporation commenced two-dimensional water tank experiment at 1/100 scale (Kyoto University) |
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| 2008 | Deep water tank experiment at 1/20 scale (National Maritime Research Institute) |
| 2009 | Ocean field experiment at 1/10 scale (Sasebo City, Nagasaki Prefecture) |
| 2010 | Demonstration project outsourced by Ministry of the Environment Demonstration Site selected(off the coast of Kabashima, Goto City) |
| 2012 | Small-scale experiment model (1/2 scale, 100kW) installed; Japan’s first grid-connected floating offshore wind turbine |
| 2013 | Demonstration model (2,000kW) installed; Japan’s first commercial-scale floating offshore wind turbine |
| 2015 | Demonstration model relocated to a site off the coast of Sakiyama |
| 2016 | After completion of project by Ministry of the Environment, operations continued as “Sakiyama 2MW Floating Offshore Wind Turbine” by Goto City and Goto Floating Wind Power LLC. |