RECOW Research and Development Roadmap
Main Members and Major Past Research Achievements
Professor Changhong Hu
Director of the Department of Next-Generation Offshore Wind Turbine Research / Research Institute for Applied Mechanics (RIAM)
▶ Development of a fishery-harmonious floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) system (Joint industry-academia research)
▶ Development of a bottom-mounted tidal current turbine system (NEDO, joint principal investigator),
development of a floating transmission tower for offshore overhead power transmission (JST, principal investigator),
development of a FOWT with multiple wind lens turbines (joint industry-academia research)
▶ Coupled hydrodynamic and aerodynamic analysis on FOWT (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research)
For details of Professor Hu’s research, please click here.
Experiment on a FOWT under both wind and wave conditions
Experiment on a floating transmission tower for offshore overhead power transmission
Development of a fishery-harmonious FOWT system
Professor Tomoaki Utsunomiya
Director of the Department of Support Structures and Offshore Power Transmission Research / Graduate School of Engineering
▶ Development and demonstration of mooring cost reduction for floating offshore wind power generation facilities
(Ministry of the Environment, principal investigator)
▶ Development and demonstration of a low-cost, low-carbon removal method for spar-type floating offshore wind power generation facilities
(Ministry of the Environment, co-investigator)
▶ Many Grants-in-Aid received for Scientific Research on development and demonstration of offshore wind power generation facilities,
Award for Distinguished Contributions to Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration received from the Minister of the Environment (2014)
▶ Chairman of NEDO’s DC Deep-sea Cable Review Committee, member of NEDO’s GI Fund Project Adoption Review Committee, etc.,
committee member at the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; the Ministry of the Environment;
the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism; NEDO; Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK); and many other organizations
For details of Professor Utsunomiya’s research, please click here.
1/10 model experiment of 2-MW real turbine
1/2 model of 2-MW real turbine in actual sea area demonstration test
t 2-MW spar-type floating wind turbine
Professor Takanori Uchida
Director of the Department of Multiscale Offshore Wind Environment Research / Research Institute for Applied Mechanics (RIAM)
▶ Principal investigator of the numerical wind prediction model RIAM-COMPACT
▶ Currently, three national projects are being implemented. (NEDO/Feasibility Study Program, JST/A-STEP (Stage Ⅱ), JST/Moonshot R&D)
▶ The 54th Ichimura Award “Ichimura Award for Global Environmental Science and Contribution” received from the Ichimura Foundation for New Technology in 2022
▶ New Energy Award “Judging Committee Chairman’s Special Prize” received from the New Energy Foundation (NEF) in 2022
▶ Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics Award (Technology Award) in 2023
For details regarding Professor Uchida’s research, please click here.
Professor Shigeo Yoshida
Department of Next-Generation Offshore Wind Turbine Research/ Research Institute for Applied Mechanics (RIAM)
▶ Development and demonstration of elemental technologies of advanced floating offshore wind turbine (NEDO, principal investigator)
▶ Low-cost construction technologies of offshore wind turbines (NEDO, principal investigator)
▶ Advanced technologies for practical application of wind turbines (NEDO, recommissioned),
10 MW+ class wind turbine technologies (NEDO, recommissioned)
▶ Task 40 Downwind Turbine Technologies (IEA Wind, operating agent)
For details regarding Professor Yoshida’s research, please click here.
Two-bladed, downwind offshore wind turbine
Single-point mooring two-blade downwind floating offshore wind turbine
Large-scale multi-rotor wind turbine
APCOW
APCOW (Asia-Pacific Conference on Offshore Wind) is the first academic conference in Asia led by academia. It is organized on the foundation of Kyushu University’s long-standing research network on wind power generation, developed in collaboration with universities across Asia—including China, Taiwan, and South Korea—as well as institutions in Europe and the United States.
The conference, held from November 25 to 27, 2024, brought together approximately 200 researchers, experts, and industry representatives from around the world, particularly from Asia, to engage in active discussions on the latest developments and solutions to challenges in offshore wind technology.
Moving forward, the conference will continue to be held regularly, with the host country rotating among participating nations.