The consortium — which includes Marubeni, MHI, the University of Tokyo, Hitachi, Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding, Japan Marine United, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp., Furukawa Electric and Shimizu — will finish laying mooring chains, anchors and an undersea cable at the testing site by late August.

It is now preparing to connect an undersea cable made by Furukawa Electric to the Fukushima project's 66kV floating power substation.

MHI