But when its developer, Korean conglomerate Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), pulled back from its strategic plans in the region, as Rechargerevealed last year, the fate of the prototype of the giant S-7.0-171, erected off Methil, Scotland, hung in the balance, and tests at the former UK National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec) of a duplicate drive-train were iced.
The 7MW machine, installed on a four-legged steel jacket in the shallows off Energy Park Fife (EPF) in the autumn of 2013, has stood 'cold' since, its blades locked and still – just yards from the site where blueprints put the high-tech factory that was to be built to manufacture the S-7.0-171.
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