ORE Catapult and China’s TUS Holdings have signed a memorandum of understanding with the People’s Government of Quingdao and the Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology to develop marine renewable energy technology.
The MoU follows the opening of the TUS-ORE Catapult research centre in China’s Shandong Province in March and ORE Catapult chief executive Andrew Jamieson said it was the “next step” in growing the UK R&D outfit’s presence in the country.
“We expect [the MoU] to facilitate further joint research programmes to support market entry and incubation for UK businesses in China through demonstration of new technologies on a 300MW wind farm in the Shandong Province,” he said.
TUS Clean Energy senior president Charlie Du said the four-party collaboration was another milestone in TUS Clean Energy and OREC’s bid to promote and apply UK technology to the Chinese market.
China will be the world’s largest offshore wind market by 2030, with 5GW due to be installed by 2020 and a further 10GW in planning, OREC said.
The R&D speacialist said the TUS-ORE partnership has already helped UK wind company Anakata get a foothold in China.
Anakata today signed an MoU with TUS Wind, Quingdao Government and TUS Triple Helix to develop its rotor blade technology for the Chinese market.