On February 14, 2025, Eurus Energy’s group company Dohoku Wind Farm commissioned the 60MW south section of Ashikawa Wind Farm in Toyotomi Town, Hokkaido. With that, the company completed the entire six-power plant, 434.5MW Dohoku project.
According to the statement, construction of the south section started in April 2020 with Shimizu Corporation serving as the EPC. Together with the 68.8MW north section, which was built between March 2020 and January 2024, the wind farm consists of 31 4.3MW Siemens Gamesa turbines with total output limited to 128.8MW due to available grid connection capacity.
Power generated at the newly commissioned section will, like that generated at the already commissioned parts of the project, be sold to Hokkaido Electric Power Network through the feed-in-tariff (FIT) scheme. When the six power plants (officially seven as the south and north sections of Asahikawa Wind Farm were certified separately) were FIT-certified in FY2016, the FIT price for on-shore wind power plants was 22 yen per kWh.
Completion of the Dohoku project comes less than two weeks after its 72.2MW Yuchi Wind Farm in Wakkanai City, Hokkaido, was commissioned on February 3, 2025. The other four projects include the 47.5MW Hamasato Wind farm and the 80MW Kawaminami Wind Farm commissioned in May 2023, the 64MW Kawanishi Wind Farm commissioned in January 2024, and the 42MW Kabaoka Wind Farm commissioned in February 2024.
Eurus Energy is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Toyota Tsusho and is Japan’s largest wind developer Currently, it has over 3.3GW of operational on-shore capacity with more projects under development. Later this year, Toyota Tsusho plans to merge its other wholly-owned renewable developer, Terras Energy, into Eurus Energy.
