The Dutch company last year has spent €1.33bn ($1.85bn) in 2013 on the German offshore grid, down from €1.55bn in 2012.

The company also spend €174m on onshore transmission projects in Germany last year, including for the start of the 800-kilometre SuedLink HVDC transmission line that is slated to bring wind energy from Germany’s Northern coastal regions to its power thirsty industrial centres to the South.

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