As Recharge exclusively reported yesterday, the demonstrator, to be sited off the southwestern island of Kyushu, will use different turbine models, one a two-blade 3MW and the other a three-bladed 4.4MW, foundations built from dissimilar materials – one concrete and one steel – and different mooring technologies

Finalisation of the agreement with Hitachi Zozen follows the announcement last month that Ideol's open-centred "damping pool" foundation concept is being used for the 2MW FloatGen project,