TOKYO, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Japan's newly-installed wind power generation capacity is expected to rise

8 percent to 92 megawatts in the financial year ending March 31, from a year earlier, marking the first

gain in three years, the Japan Wind Power Association said.

Despite the rise, new wind farm installation is much smaller than 2,000 MW in new solar power that

the government expects Japan to install during the same period. New wind power installation fell

sharply in 2011/12, hurt by the termination of a subsidy for new wind farms. Despite the introduction

of a new feed-in-tariff scheme in July 2012, the installation of new wind mills is unlikely to jump

until 2015/16 or later as the construction of new wind mills takes two to five years, the association

has said.

Japan's installed capacity of wind power units totalled 2,614 MW at the end of December 2012, as 78

MW worth of solar power was newly installed last year, the association said.

Following is a table of the nation's installed wind power capacity and the number of wind power

generation units, with the association's projections for the end of March 2013. Installed capacity is

in megawatts (MW).

Year Total installed Total wind units Installed during the year Units installed during the year

2006/07 1,490.1 1,316 405.3 257

2007/08 1,674.4 1,413 184.3 97

2008/09 1,882.1 1,533 207.7 120

2009/10 2,185.7 1,682 303.6 149

2010/11 2,471.7 1,828 286.0 146

2011/12 2,556.8 1,855 85.1 27

2012/13 2,649.0 1,904 92.0 49

(Reporting by Osamu Tsukimori; Editing by Anupama Dwivedi)

Keywords: JAPAN POWER/WIND

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