2016.07.29
Experimental power plant in Kunigami dismantled
Electric Power Development Co., Ltd. (J-POWER) has dismantled its Yanbaru experimental seawater pumped storage power station in Kunigami.
The plant, the first of its kind in the world, created electricity by pumping during the night seawater into a tank up on a hill 150 meters above the sea level, and then returning the water into the sea through a power-creating turbine during daytime when the electricity demand is at its peak.
The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry built the power station in 1999 to explore the possibility of oceanic renewable energy at a cost of ¥3.2 billion. J-POWER has used it as a testing facility, but they could not put it in practical use because the demand for electric power in Okinawa has not grown as predicted, and the plant was not profitable as a business.
J-POWER says that the station was originally built as a testing facility, and the company was able to obtain beneficial results from more than 10 years of study, before a decision to close the plant was made after considering every aspect of the operation.
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