{"id":962,"date":"2009-05-27T14:16:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T14:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jlgc.wordpress.com\/?p=175"},"modified":"2009-05-27T14:16:52","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T14:16:52","slug":"kuzumaki-has-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/about-jlgc\/kuzumaki-has-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuzumaki has wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The northern Japan town of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kuzumaki,_Iwate\">Kuzumaki<\/a>, Iwate prefecture, is making use of its windy assets in some very creative ways. Twelve wind turbines and three wind power plants generate enough power for 600 households. And if that\u2019s not enough to blow you away, dairy cow manure is processed into clean fertiliser and methane gas.<\/p>\n<p>JLGC\u2019s booth at this year\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/annualconference.lga.gov.uk\/\">LGA Conference<\/a> in Harrogate will feature a number of case studies on local government best practice in Japan, and one of the areas we plan to showcase is Kuzumaki\u2019s use of technology in the environment.<\/p>\n<p>As a preview, take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0,8599,1867805,00.html\">Time magazine\u2019s article on Kuzumaki<\/a>. And see <a href=\"http:\/\/pa.photoshelter.com\/gallery-show\/G0000cw50DFbwAy0\/\">here<\/a> for more photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The northern Japan town of Kuzumaki, Iwate prefecture, is making use of its windy assets in some very creative ways. Twelve wind turbines and three wind power plants generate enough power for 600 households. And if that\u2019s not enough to blow you away, dairy cow manure is processed into clean fertiliser and methane gas. JLGC\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-jlgc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jlgc.org.uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}