Project History

June 2000 - [The Okinawa Deep Seawater Research Center Opens]
August 2012 - Start of Okinawa Prefecture "Demonstration Project of Power Generation Used for Advanced Deep Seawater Utilization"
January 2013 - Installation of Okinawa Prefecture Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Demonstration Facility (herein after OTEC Demonstration Facility) Begins

March 2013 - First successful power generation
June 2013 - Energization (Opening) Ceremony

November 2013 - The OTEC Demonstration Facility received the 2013 Academic Society Award of the Deep Ocean Water Applications Society (DOWAS) http://dowas.net/information/gakai/gakai2013.html
November 2013 - 1,000 visitors
June 2014 - 2,000 visitors
July 2014 - The waters around the OTEC Demonstration Facility were selected by the Secretariat of the Cabinet Secretariat's General Marine Policy Headquarters as a marine renewable energy demonstration field (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion) https://www8.cao.go.jp/ocean/policies/energy/h26_testfield.html
April 2016 - Launch of Okinawa Prefecture "Demonstration Project for Advanced Combined Use of Post-OTEC Power Generation Seawater Use"
May 2016 - 5,000 visitors
March 2017 - Completion of piping installation for seawater utilization after OTEC Demonstration Facility power generation
September 2018 - [6th International OTEC Symposium (Okinawa Main Island)]
March 2019 - Completion of “Okinawa Prefecture “Demonstration Project of Power Generation Used for Advanced Deep Seawater Utilization and Demonstration Project for Advanced Combined Use of Post-OTEC Power Generation Seawater Use” Report (Okinawa Prefecture HP in Japanese)
April 2019 - Start of Okinawa Prefecture “Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Power Generation Demonstration Test Equipment Maintenance and Management Operations”
August 2019 - 10,000 visitors
November 2019 - SATREPS training support for Malaysian Researchers and Students
February 2020 - Start implementation support of Kumejima Town "OTEC Power Generation and Post-OTEC Combined Seawater Use Demonstration Work"