The governments of Germany, Belgium and Denmark, together with industry leaders, signed a joint statement at OWE 2017 to further the deployment of offshore wind in Europe, but fell short of including industry demands for a 6-7GW annual pipeline across the continent.
While reaffirming a commitment made by ten EU governments a year ago in the North Seas Declaration for regional cooperation to add a “significant amount of new offshore wind power in Europe between 2020 and 2030,” the signatories of the statement remained vague about actual volumes.
