Japan to Build World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm

It's goodbye nuclear, hello renewables as Japan prepares to construct the earth's biggest offshore wind farm this This summer.

By 2020, the program would be to build as many as 143 wind generators on platforms 16 kms from the coast of Fukushima, the place to find the stricken Daiichi nuclear reactor that hit the headlines in March 2011 if this was broken by an earthquake and tsunami.

The wind farm, that will generate 1 gigawatt of energy once completed, belongs to a national intend to increase alternative energy assets following a publish-tsunami shutdown from the nation's 54 nuclear reactors. 3 have since return online.

The project belongs to Fukushima's intend to become completely energy self-sufficient by 2040, using renewable sources alone. The prefecture can also be set to construct the nation's greatest photo voltaic park.

The wind farm will exceed the 504 megawatts produced through the 140 turbines in the Greater Gabbard farm from the coast of Suffolk, United kingdom - presently the earth's biggest farm. This accolade will quickly pass towards the London Array within the Thames Estuary, where 175 turbines will produce 630 megawatts of energy as it pertains online later this season. The Fukushima farm will beat this, too.