Germany grid-connected 818MW in new offshore wind power last year, bringing the country’s cumulative capacity to 4.11GW as it prepares for its first offshore wind tenders in April, annual figures from Deutsche WindGuard commissioned by five different wind groups show.

The expansion in 2016 was much lower than the record 2.26GW addition in 2015, a year in which offshore grew faster than usual due to a large volume of capacity installed in the previous year that hadn’t been grid-connected yet.

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