RWE’s offshore wind plans in Japan expand to new area

RWE Renewables has emerged as a developer behind another wind project planned offshore Japan. The German company which, after its entry into the Japanese offshore wind market, first focused on feasibility studies and project development in the area of the Kyushu island and off Akita and Niigata prefectures on Honshu is looking at a new area where it could build an offshore wind farm.