Chief executive Bernd Ranneberg will leave BARD “at his own request” less than a year and a half after joining the company, which has fallen at least two years behind schedule at its flagship 400MW BARD Offshore 1 project – the first commercial offshore wind farm to built in the German North Sea.

While no replacement for Ranneberg has been named, BARD has appointed Michael Baur as its new executive chairman.

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