Utilities this week advanced key offshore wind projects in the English Channel, the North Sea and the Baltic Sea with a combined capacity of close to 1GW.

German utility E.ON this week has installed the last of 116 MHI Vestas V112-3.45MW turbines at the 400MW Rampion wind farm off the coast of Sussex in southern England ahead of plan, and is celebrating the start of turbine installation at the 385MW Arkona project in the German part of the Baltic Sea.