Kawasaki stages Japan tidal test with eye on Emec berth

The seabed-mounted device will be put through its paces off Japan

Tokyo-based Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) is about to begin testing a part-scale version of a new horizontal-axis tidal-power turbine off the Japanese island of Okinawa.

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.

Kawasaki says it aims to make “new inroads” into the international renewable energy market via large-scale projects “in Britain and elsewhere that hold promise of major…

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