The demonstrator deployment takes place with a view to installing a full-size, 1MW machine at Scotland’s European Marine Energy Centre (Emec).

Kawasaki’s three-bladed, seabed-mounted device will be put through its paces off Japan in collaboration with partners including utility Okinawa Electric Power.

The full-scale turbine is in line to take up the last of seven berths at Emec’s Fall of Warness tidal testing site.

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