Mitsubishi Power Systems Europe (MPSE) is a company that specialises in developing

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technologies in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. It is headquartered in London and has offices in Leeds, Hamburg, Madrid, Milan, Prague, and Vienna.

History

The company, a subsidiary of

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational engineering, electrical equipment and electronics corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. MHI is one of the core companies of the Mitsubishi Group and its automobile division is the prede ...

Europe, was established on 8 October 2007. MPSE is – according to its website – focused on bringing together technology and expertise into one division. It, along with its sister companies Mitsubishi Power Systems America and Mitsubishi Power Systems Asia-Pacific, is a part of the

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of companies. In April 2009, MPSE acquired Maintenance Partners NV, a Belgium firm that specialised in the maintenance, repair, and reconditioning of electrical equipment. On 25 February 2010 it was announced that MPSE would fund a research project looking into

wind turbine A wind turbine is a device that wind power, converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. , hundreds of thousands of list of most powerful wind turbines, large turbines, in installations known as wind farms, were generating over ...

technology. It would invest more than £100m in offshore wind turbine research in Britain and create up to 200 jobs by 2014. The UK

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also announced that it was to help fund the project, which it will do with a grant of £30 million. At the time of the announcement

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and David Warren British

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to Japan both spoke favorably of the relationship between Mitsubishi and its investment in wind turbine R&D and the UK's growing

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sector.

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Mitsubishi Power Systems Europe

Mitsubishi Heavy industries Europe
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