As of September 1, 2024, the number of operating units has been reduced by one unit from the previous month.

Operating: 167 Units
Planned (including under construction): 1 Units
Retired: 9 Units

In December 2019, the Suzukawa Energy Center in Shizuoka Prefecture (started operation in 2016, 112 MW) had announced plans to change its fuel from coal to wood pellets and become a biomass-fired power plant (85,400 kW), but the actual situation previously had not been confirmed. The plans was postponed due to power supply adjustments and other factors, but JBC finally received confirmation that the plant has been changed to an exclusively biomass-fired plant, so it has been changed to “retired” in the JBC database. The date of the fuel change is assumed to be July 2022, as stated in the “Biomass White Paper 2023” (in Japanese).

*The full database can be downloaded in Excel format on this page.
*Click here (PDF) to download a summary of Japan’s coal plant data.