Japan aims to start planning a national floating wind test centre next year, a senior industry official said, vowing to pursue a path of wind power growth despite a recent setback when Mitsubishi quit three projects. Japan should work with Scotland's national floating wind test centre, the EMEC, and Norway's Marine Energy Test Centre, the METCentre to draw on their extensive experience, he added. Japan runs seven offshore wind farms, two small floating turbines among them, with a total capacity of 253 megawatt (MW) at end-2024, the Japan Wind Power Association says, but it bets on large projects to boost energy security. It has signed cooperation pacts with Britain and Norway, among others, for floating wind technology studies. Britain has the world's second biggest installed offshore wind capacity after China while Norway runs Hywind Tampen, the largest floating offshore wind farm in operation to date.