Energy minister Michael Fallon told the Global Offshore Wind 2014 event in Glasgow that Siemens’ recent announcement of manufacturing investment in Hull, northeast England, was a welcome start.
But Fallon added: “Overall UK content in our offshore wind farms can be, and should be, much higher – especially in capital expenditure.”
The minister said he has asked Siemens Energy UK managing director Matthew Chinn, a member of the Offshore Wind Industry Council, to look at the supply chain “to consider what more industry and government can do to support its development”.
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