Goto Floating Wind Farm reconfirmed the January 2026 target commercial operation start date for the 16.8MW floating offshore wind farm it is building off the coast of Goto City, Nagasaki Prefecture, at the power plant’s naming ceremony held on April 20, 2025.
The newly named Goto Offshore Wind Farm was the first project to be allowed to proceed under the Act on Promoting the Utilization of Sea Areas for the Development of Marine Renewable Energy, under which METI and MLIT now run Japan’s offshore wind auctions. The project, led by Toda Corporation, has been delayed from its original January 2024 COD target due to “defects discovered in a floating structure during construction” in 2023.
Once operational, the power plant will consist of eight 2.1MW turbines and is expected to become Japan’s first multi-turbine commercial floating offshore wind farm. Its output will be sold under the feed-in-tariff (FIT) scheme at 36 yen per kWh.
In addition to Toda Corporation, which led the introduction of Japan’s first commercially used floating wind turbine, ENEOS Renewable Energy, Osaka Gas, INPEX, Kansai Electric Power, and Chubu Electric Power are also part of the Goto Floating Wind Farm consortium.
To fully utilize its offshore wind potential, Japan’s oceanographic conditions dictate the need for significant floating capacity growth.
In the private sector, Toda has been spearheading the country’s efforts with the installation of the first turbine under a New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) demonstration project and its later commercialization alongside the development of this project. Glocal has also been active in the market, having commercialized Japan’s first steel barge floating turbine and launched the environmental assessment for a 30MW floating project recently.
