The “central scenario” of EWEA’s new Wind Energy Scenarios for 2020 sees offshore wind accounting for 23.5GW of the total.
That is little more than half of the offshore capacity envisaged in 2009, before Europe’s financial crisis and what EWEA described as “regulatory instability” in several key EU markets.
The 2009 projection was for 230GW of wind, including 40GW offshore, producing a total of 581TWh of power – 15.7%
