Hitachi Plans to Add Production Line for Offshore Wind Parts
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Hitachi Ltd. plans to expand its reach into the market for offshore wind projects by adding a production line to make the parts of a turbine that house key components such as the gear box and generators used in some of the largest wind-generation systems currently available.
The Tokyo-based company is considering adding a line to produce nacelles for 5-megawatt wind-power systems by the end of March 2016, Hisahiro Sakai, a spokesman for Hitachi, said by phone Wednesday. A nacelle is the box-like component that sits atop a wind turbine’s tower.