The Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (Orec), which took over the Narec facility as part of a merger in April, said today it had been "advised [by SHI] of potential termination" of the testing programme cued up at the newly-commissioned 15MW Narec rig.

An Orec spokeswoman adds: "We continue to engage with Samsung around their future participation in offshore wind, whilst in parallel working with all parties on the commissioning programme for the 15MW wind turbine nacelle test rig, the contracts for which are principally between ETI [the UK Energy Technologies Institute] and GE [which built the test rig]."

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