Those talks are believed to centre around the formation of a joint-venture partnership for the offshore turbine sector.

Of course, company officials are not about to make public the state of negotiations until things are settled.

Amid a fertile rumour mill, chairman Bert Nordberg was only prepared to say: "We announced that we are in negotiations with Mitsubishi and we have not announced that we have stopped negotiating, which we would do – so that clears up the question."

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