Last November, the company said it would will start installing its first 5MW offshore turbine off the coast of eastern Japan by the end of March 2014. Demonstration tests were initially scheduled to begin in May or June.

A company spokesperson tells Recharge that the turbine is still being built, but did not reveal the reason for the delay.

Hitachi hopes to participate in SB Energy’s plan to develop a 100MW offshore wind farm off Kashima, but “nothing has been decided yet,” the spokesperson says.

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