The Asia-Pacific (APAC) offshore wind market is expected to become more diversified as more utility-scale offshore wind projects are expected to come online in Japan, South Korea and elsewhere in Asia from 2027 onwards. The anticipated scale-up of offshore wind development in APAC serves as a window of opportunity for countries to pursue economic and social regeneration along its coasts.
This paper sets out the core economic and wider social and environmental benefits of offshore wind development based on case studies extracted from more mature markets and discusses how these benefits could be leveraged in order to achieve coastal regeneration for various areas in the APAC region.