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Japan Wind Power Association announced that the capacity of all new wind power plants
scheduled to start operation in fiscal 2012 ending April 2013 will increase 8%
over the preceding year to 92,000 kW, recording a year-on-year increase for the
first time in the past three years. The system to purchase power generated by
renewable energy at a fixed price started in July 2012. The estimated introduction
of photovoltaic generation was 2,000,000 kW in 2012. That is, the introduction
of wind power generation was less than one twentieth of the introduction of
photovoltaic generation. This is because it takes longer to put a wind power
plant into operation than a photovoltaic power plant.
Although
the introduction of wind power generation recorded an increase for the first
time in the past three years in 2012, it is one third of the level of introduction
in the three years before 2010 when the government subsidized one third of
initial investment for the introduction of a wind power plant. The total
generation capacity of wind power generation as the end of 2012 was 2,610,000
kW. It is still a long way to go for the substantial spread of wind power generation.
Wind
power generation does not spread as fast as expected.
In 2012, only 49 wind power
plants started operation.
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