Sara S
03-20-2011, 05:58 AM
According to Kelly Rigg at the Huffington Post, the Country's Wind Turbine farms survived consecutive natural disasters so well that the Japanese Government is asking that the operators of the facilities step up production to make up for the lost power supply left by nuclear plant failures around the Japan's North Island.
Yes, you read that right.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/19/958072/-Wind-T...
Mr. Ueda confirms that most Japanese wind turbines are fully operational. Indeed, he says that electric companies have asked wind farm owners to step up operations as much as possible in order to make up for shortages in the eastern part of the country:
Eurus Energy Japan says that 174.9MW with eight wind farms (64% of their total capacity with 11 wind farms in eastern part of Japan) are in operation now. The residual three wind farms (Kamaishi 42.9MW, Takinekoshirai 46MW, Satomi 10.02MW) are stopped due to the grid failure caused by the earthquake and Tsunami. Satomi is to re-start operations in a few days. Kamaishi is notorious for tsunami disaster, but this wind farm is safe because it is locate in the mountains about 900m high from sea level.
Battle-proof Wind Farms Survive Japan's Trial by Fire
the rest: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-rigg/battleproof-wi...
Yes, you read that right.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/19/958072/-Wind-T...
Mr. Ueda confirms that most Japanese wind turbines are fully operational. Indeed, he says that electric companies have asked wind farm owners to step up operations as much as possible in order to make up for shortages in the eastern part of the country:
Eurus Energy Japan says that 174.9MW with eight wind farms (64% of their total capacity with 11 wind farms in eastern part of Japan) are in operation now. The residual three wind farms (Kamaishi 42.9MW, Takinekoshirai 46MW, Satomi 10.02MW) are stopped due to the grid failure caused by the earthquake and Tsunami. Satomi is to re-start operations in a few days. Kamaishi is notorious for tsunami disaster, but this wind farm is safe because it is locate in the mountains about 900m high from sea level.
Battle-proof Wind Farms Survive Japan's Trial by Fire
the rest: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-rigg/battleproof-wi...