The UK’s Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has partnered up with China’s Tus-Wind to establish a £2m ($2.5m) research centre that will help support the further development of offshore wind.

The Tus-ORE Catapult Technology Research Centre will be based in Yantai in China’s Shandong province. The funds will be invested by the Yantai local government authority over a three year period, with the aim of developing an offshore wind farm in the region of at least 300MW and a minimum 10% UK content.