On February 3, 2025, Eurus Energy’s group company Dohoku Wind Farm started commercial operation of the 72.2MW Yuchi Wind Farm in Wakkanai City, Hokkaido.
“The Wind Farm is a part of the Dohoku Wind Power Generation Project, which will install a total of 107 wind turbines at a total of six wind farms in the northern Hokkaido area,” said Eurus’s statement from the same day.
It is the fifth of the six wind farms to be completed following the 47.5MW Hamasato Wind Farm and 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 also already commissioned the 68.8MW north section of the sixth Ashikawa Wind Farm in January 2024 with the 60MW south section set to follow this year.
According to the statement, construction of the Yuchi Wind Farm started in July 2021 with Kandenko in charge of engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC). While the power plant comprises of 18 4.2MW GE Vernova turbines totaling 75.6MW, their output is limited due to grid constraints. The Hamasato, Kawaminami, and Kawanishi power plants have their output limited as well.
Power generated by the newly commissioned power plant will, like that from the already operational power plants, be sold to Hokaido Electric Power Network through the feed-in-tariff (FIT) scheme. All five of Dohoku Wind Farm’s fully operational power plants, as well as the Ashikawa Wind Farm, were FIT-certified in FY2016 when the tariff for on-shore wind power plants was 22 yen per kWh.
The Toyota Tsusho-owned Eurus Energy is Japan’s largest wind developer. It has over 3.3GW of operational on-shore capacity across nearly 100 projects, primarily in Hokkaido and Tohoku, with further projects under development.
To tackle the bottleneck of limited transmission line capacity in the wind-rich Hokkaido, Eurus Energy along with Cosmo Eco Power and other partners established North Hokkaido Wind Energy Transmission Corporation in 2013. The company started operating power grid and battery storage facilities in April 2023.
