More access to Japan’s electricity grid needed

This to boost boost renewable energy use.

Vestas Wind Systems A/S, the world’s leading maker of wind turbines and the market leader, said Japan needs to improve access to the electricity grid and allow power sales across regions to boost renewable energy use.

Vestas Chief Executive Officer Ditlev Engel said his company wants to increase cooperation with Japanese companies to expand the wind energy market. Vestas and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. are in talks to develop an 8 megawatt turbine, the industry’s largest.

Japan lags behind China and the U.S. in wind installations. It was ranked 13th in the world with 2,614 megawatts of installed wind capacity in 2013, said the Global Wind Energy Council.