The UK offshore wind sector has become key to the country's future economic growth, according to two senior industry figures.

“The costs of energy from offshore wind have fallen to such a degree in recent years that it is rapidly becoming not only the nation’s primary means of delivering its carbon-reduction targets through the coming decades, but a huge opportunity to export energy across Europe and goods and services all around the world,” said Andrew Jamieson, chief executive of innovation and research centre Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult.

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