Official installed capacities  

Year	Capacity (MW)	Growth (%)	Onshore share (MW)	Offshore share (MW)
1997	18
1998	30
1999	68
2000	142
2001	275
2002	334
2003	506
2004	896
2005	1,040
2006	1,309
2007	1,528
2008	1,880
2009	2,056
2010	2,304
2011	2,501
2012	2,614
2013	2,661
2014	2,788
2015	3,038
2016	3,234
2017	3,400
2018	3,505
2019	3,923
2020	4,206
2021	4,471
2022	4,577
2023	5,214
2024	5,840
2025	6,238

Zones (*)  

Zone	Connected capacity (MW)	Share (%)
Hokkaido (Hokkaido)
Aomori (Tohoku)
Offshore
Fukushima (Tohoku)
Akita (Tohoku)
Iwate (Tohoku)
Shimane (Chugoku)
Kagoshima (Kyushu)
Mie (Kansai)
Wakayama (Kansai)
Shizuoka (Chubu)
Ishikawa (Chubu)
Miyazaki (Kyushu)
Nagasaki (Kyushu)
Ehime (Shikoku)
Yamaguchi (Chugoku)
Ibaraki (Kanto)
Kumamoto (Kyushu)
Saga (Kyushu)
Kochi (Shikoku)
Miyagi (Tohoku)
Tokushima (Shikoku)
Hyogo (Kansai)
Yamagata (Tohoku)
Aichi (Chubu)
Chiba (Kanto)
Oita (Kyushu)
Fukuoka (Kyushu)
Tottori (Chugoku)
Fukui (Chubu)
Okinawa (Kyushu)
Niigata (Chubu)
(Chubu)
Tokyo (Kanto)
Kanagawa (Kanto)
(Kyushu)
Kyoto (Kansai)
(Chugoku)
(Tohoku)
Hiroshima (Chugoku)
Togishi (Kanto)
Gunma (Kanto)
Unidentified	0,0

Top 10 manufacturers (*)  

Manufacturer	Connected capacity (MW)	Market share (%)
GE Vernova
Vestas
Siemens-Gamesa
Enercon
Siemens
Hitachi
JSW
Mitsubishi
Repower
Gamesa
Others	435,8
Unidentified	1,713,2

Top 25 turbines (*)  

Turbine	Connected capacity (MW)	Market share (%)
4.2-117
3.2-103
J82
V117/4000-4200
E82/2300
SWT-DD-120
HTW2.0-86
HTW2.0-80
SWT-3.4-108
SG 8.0-167 DD
G80/2000
V105/3450
V90/3000
V80/2000
1.5s
74
V117/3450
2.5-88
1.5sle
MWT-92
Subaru 80/2.0
MM82
SWT-3.0-101
HTW2.1-80A
E70/2300
Others	792,7
Unidentified	2,262,1

Turbine power distribution (*)  

Power range	Number of connected turbines	Represented capacity (MW)
Less than 1 MW
1 to 2 MW
2 to 3 MW
3 to 4 MW
4 to 5 MW
5 to 6 MW
6 to 7 MW
7 to 8 MW
More than 8 MW

Wind farm age distribution (*)  

Period	Number of connected wind farms	Number of connected turbines	Represented capacity (MW)
Before 1980
1980 to 1989
1990 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to 2019
Since 2020
Undated

	Databases        Japan (windfarms) Japan (national report) Asia (windfarms) World (windfarms) All databases

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	Main windfarms in operation Kita Kyushu Port Hibikinada (238,0 MW) Sumita Tono (113,4 MW) Ishikari Bay New Port Offshore (112,0 MW) Tsugaru (99,2 MW) Abukuma South wind farm (89,6 MW) Noshiro Port (84,0 MW) Kawaminami (80,0 MW) Fukaura (79,8 MW) Shin Izumo (78,0 MW) Yuchi (75,6 MW) Ashikawa (68,8 MW) Kushima (65,6 MW) Kawanishi (64,5 MW) Rusutsu (63,0 MW) Ashikawa (60,0 MW)

	Recent windfarms Kita Kyushu Port Hibikinada (238,0 MW) Kamaishi (46,0 MW) Nishime (30,0 MW) Nakaura (7,5 MW) Oita Beppuwan (8,6 MW) Kitakyushu Hibiki (2,0 MW) Yuchi (75,6 MW) Iwaki Yotsukura (2,0 MW) Sandai Myojin (33,9 MW) Hirado Ikitsuki (8,6 MW)

	Legend #ND: no data (*): according to The Wind Power database

	Update for this sheet 7 April 2026