The project, located 50 km south of Misawa in the Aomori Prefecture, will be completed next month and Kandenko Co. Ltd is providing its engineering, procurement and construction services for the facility.

The Tohoku Electric Power Company has a long-term power purchase agreement to procure electricity from Rokkasho-mura and the entire project has the blessing of the country's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

GE Wind Energy country manager, Alan Sides, is understandably pleased that JWD chose to use his company's products. According to Sides, "We are pleased that our 1.5-megawatt wind turbine technology again has been selected by JWD" and he believes that the "Rokkasho project supports Japan's renewable energy target which encourages the production of three gigawatts of new renewable energy for Japan by the year 2010."

This is not the first project in Japan that GE has supplied its turbines to. Earlier this year saw the company supplying 10 1.5-MW wind turbines to Hibikinada Wind Project. More than 1600 of GE's wind turbines are used around the world.

JWD was set up in July 1991 and is an international wind project developer and was listed in March of this year on the Tokyo Stock Exchange as the first wind business venture in Japan.