Weeks before Japan restarted the first nuclear reactor of the 48 that were shut down following the 2011 Fukushima disaster, a Marubeni Corp.-led consortium installed what it touts as, to date, the world’s largest offshore wind turbine. The 7-MW component is for a 14-MW wind farm under construction in the Onahama Port test area of Fukushima.
The turbine stands 105 meters from sea level to the rotor center and 188.5 m to the highest point on the turbine, according to a July 30 consortium news release in Japanese.