“Sometimes you have nightmares in your life, and this was the starting point of mine.”

Deharde — who is now the managing director of Off-Shore Wind Solutions (OWS), an O&M company that was spun off from the sinking Bard group — does not mince his words as he gives a blow-by-blow account of what went wrong at BO1, which was finally commissioned off Germany in 2013, years behind schedule and massively over budget.

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