Eurus Energy-affiliated Fukui Kunimi Wind Power LLC has completed the environmental impact assessment for its Fukui Kunimidake onshore wind project.
According to the final assessment report approved by METI in March 2025 and made available for public viewing on May 23, the project will comprise nine 4.2MW turbines with their combined output capped 33.6MW. Construction is scheduled to begin in October 2025. Commercial operation is expected to start in October 2028 following a six-month trial operations period.
METI data shows the project was certified under the feed-in-tariff (FIT) scheme in FY2020. That year, the last before the category was transitioned to an auction system, new onshore wind power plants were offered 18-yen-per-kWh contracts. Eurus did not disclose whether it plans to operate the asset under the FIT scheme or convert it to the feed-in-premium (FIP) scheme and sell the output through PPAs.
The project’s environmental impact assessment was launched in October 2019 by SB Energy, later known as Terras Energy and now part of Eurus. At the time, it was filed as being up to 51.6MW before being scaled down in the methodology stage to approximately its final size.
Notable operational wind projects in the vicinity include J-POWER’s 20MW Awara Kitagata Wind Power Plant commissioned in 2011 and The Nihonkai Power Generating Company’s 8MW Mikuni Wind Power Plant commissioned in 2017. Additionally, in April 2024, a Vena Energy affiliate began construction of the 50MW Nimaida Wind Power Plant, scheduled for 2026 completion, adjacent to Eurus’s planned project.
Separately from onshore, the area off the coast of nearby Awara City is one of the “Preparation Zones” designated under the Act on Promoting the Utilization of Sea Areas for the Development of Marine Renewable Energy. J-POWER, Vena Energy, and a consortium consisting of Chubu Electric Power, Hokuriku Electric Power, and OSCF launched environmental assessments for projects in the zone in anticipation of a future auction.
