About a 40-minute drive to the north from central Sapporo lies the Sea of Japan port of Ishikari, a city rich in biodiversity that now finds itself at the heart of a fierce debate over wind power ...

Pattern and its majority-owned Japanese unit Green Power Investment Corporation (GPI) said the 112MW Ishikari project off Hokkaido will break new ground by building a 100MW/180MWh battery facility ...