The state-backed group — which includes the University of Tokyo, Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding and Furukawa Electric — towed the turbine to the Fukushima Forward testing site earlier this week.
The 7MW turbine — which features a unique digital-displacement hydraulic transmission (DDT) drive train — is now floating on a three-column semi-submersible platform, roughly 20 kilometres offshore from the port of Onahama, Fukushima.
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