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…