With the global wind industry turning its attention towards emerging deepwater plays, the Hamburg-based company has joined the camp of turbine makers striking a balance between high-nameplate capacity offshore units and smaller, low-speed wind-harvesting onshore machines.

Having 5MW and 6MW offshore turbines up and running at wind farm "laboratories" Beatrice and Alpha Ventus, REpower is developing a machine for an environment utterly unlike the North Sea.

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