Japanese trading house Marubeni Corp has pledged to invest 10 billion pounds ($12.3 billion) with partners over the next 10 years into clean energy in the United Kingdom, according to a memorandum of understanding signed on Wednesday.

Marubeni and the UK government signed the MoU, which includes UK offshore wind projects, in Tokyo. ($1 = 0.8143 pounds) (Reporting by Yuka Obayashi; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)