The Japanese company will model the supersize machines onits HTW 5.0-126, which is to see its maiden installation next year off Kamisuin Ibaraki prefecture, before being rolled out commercially in 2015.

"We see the 10MW as very much an extension of the5MW, upscaled," states Kyushu University professor Shigeo Yoshida, who ledthe design team at Hitachi that hatched the smaller model and now consults forthe company.

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