Kazuno Green Energy submitted the environmental impact assessment methodology for its up to 107.5MW Kazuno Tobu Shimin Wind Farm in Kazuno City, Akita Prefecture on April 3, 2025.
According to the document, the company is currently planning for the project to be up to 107.5MW, a slight increase from the up to 106MW noted when it launched the assessment process in July 2024. The project is expected to include up to 25 turbines, 4.2 to 6.1MW each, spread across a 924ha area in the eastern part of the city.
Construction is expected to begin in 2028 at the earliest, with commissioning following no earlier than in 2033.
Operational wind capacity in the vicinity is limited to the 7.65MW Eurus Tashirotai Wind Farm commissioned in 2022 and the adjacent Iwate Prefecture’s 1.98MW Inaniwa Wind Power Plant, which resumed operation in 2022 after repowering.
With the area offering favorable wind conditions, however, multiple projects are in various stages of the EIA process. Two, the up to 94.5MW Green Power Inaniwa Takko and Invenergy-associated Inaniwa Wind LLC’s up to 134.4MW Inaniwa project, completed their assessment reports. At least three more totaling up to 204MW are in the methodology stage and four more totaling up to 695MW are in the primary consideration stage.
Kazuno Green Energy’s main shareholder, beABLE, is a Fukushima Prefecture-based power plant EPC and O&M services provider that also develops renewable projects. According to its website, it owns five high-voltage and three low-voltage power plants in Fukushima and Akita prefectures alongside a 45% interest in a 112MW biomass power plant developed jointly with Kansai Electric Power and Kyudenko.
