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CHINA: ORE Catapult and Chinese clean energy company TusEnergy will establish a \u00a32 million (CNY 17.5 million) research centre to help develop innovative technologies for the offshore wind industry.<\/p>\n
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The research centre in Shandong province in the east of the country will assist UK companies looking to enter the Chinese market and support the development of a 300MW offshore wind farm, the partners stated.<\/p>\n
Research is expected to start at the centre in early 2019, ORE Catapult stated.<\/p>\n
The two partners had signed a\u00a0collaboration agreement<\/a>\u00a0in December 2017, in which the two organisations vowed to work together to advance offshore wind and technological cooperation between the\u00a0UK<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0China<\/a>.<\/p>\n Since then, ORE Catapult has organised workshops aimed at introducing UK companies to the Chinese market, and in March, was part of a UK trade mission to China.<\/p>\n The research centre is the next stage in developing the collaboration between Tus and ORE Catapult.<\/p>\n Stephen Wyatt, ORE Catapult\u2019s research and innovation director, said: “China is one of the world\u2019s fastest growing markets for offshore wind technologies, and this presents a huge opportunity for technology transfer and for UK companies to export their innovative products and services to one of our largest global trading partners.”<\/p>\n Yingzhuo Du,\u00a0senior vice president of TusEnergy, added: “The collaboration with ORE Catapult forms a bridge between two of the leading countries in the offshore renewable energy industry.<\/p>\n “It helps drive the cost of renewable energy down. Moreover, we expect to have new technologies developed and commercialised out of China-UK joint research projects.”<\/p>\n