Hi, this is Teppei, B4.
On June 2nd and 3rd, I went to Ashikaga, Tochigi prefecture to join the seminar about wind power at Ashikaga Institute of Technology (AIT).
In AIT, there is a wind tubine(40kW) with PV(20kW) and biomass(20kW).
It is called “Triple Hybrid generation system”.
I’m sorry the weather was not so good 🙁
And there is a park of wind and light.
But it was closed because of the terrible earthquake on March 11.
This seminar is annual one, and in this year, there were 12 presenters.
Espesially I’m interested in 2 topics.
1) The project “Wind Kingdom” in Akita, presented by 山本さん 秋田県地球温暖化防止活動推進センター
This is the project that making 1,000 wind turbines in Akita.
Akita prefectural government officials are trying to realize this project now.
They have good wind conditions and good relationship with local people the presenter mentioned.
And they try to invite some maker of wind power plant.
I don’t know whether they can or not, but this attempt is really really good for current Japan.
2) The research of the potential for the introduction of the renewable energy in Japan, presened by 高木さん 伊藤忠テクノソリューションズ株式会社 新エネルギー・インフラ事業推進部
In this research, he made some scenario related to mainly Feed-in-tariff(FIT).
He changed the price of FIT 15 yen per kW or 20 yen per kW and the availability period 15 years or 20 years.
This simulation model is one of the model I wanted to make.
There are many assumption would be helpful for my research.
In this seminar, unfortunately, mainly presented about how to introducing wind power without confliction and what kind of technologies are developed.
And no one presented about how to maintenance and how important maintenance is.
Actually I talked with a man after the seminar and he didn’t know how expensive to operate maintenance.
We have to inform about maintenance more!
Teppei Katatani