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Mitsubishi announced today it will create a \u00a3100 <\/strong>million research center in England\u2019s northeast to research turbine blades, creating up to 200 jobs, according to a release from the Department of Energy & Climate Change<\/a>.<\/p>\n The British government is chipping in \u00a330 million in grants to supprt the project in hopes of enticing Mitsubishi to build a manufacturing facility in the UK in the future, which could bring up to 1,500 jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n Business Secretary Lord Mandelson and Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding today with Mitsubishi Power Systems Europe, according to the release.<\/p>\n However, there was a bit of disagreement in the British media about whether the location of the research center is a done deal.<\/p>\n Mitsubishi Power Systems Chief Executive Officer Akio Fukui said the company is considering several locations for its research facility, according to the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n Other<\/a> publications<\/a> suggested that the location of the turbine manufacturing plant is up in the air but the research facility is a done deal.<\/p>\n The government also announced \u00a318.5 million of funding for a separate offshore wind test site at the New and Renewable energy Centre (Narec) in Blyth, Northumberland.<\/p>\n Britain is trying to establish itself as a hub for offshore wind design and manufacturing and has invested heavily in that goal with \u00a375 billion in proposed offshore wind projects<\/a> announced in January.<\/p>\n