The
report,
sponsored
by
the
multi-state
Baltic
Sea
Region
Energy
Cooperation
(BASREC)
scheme,
weighed-up
three
key
cost
drivers
for
offshore
wind
deployment
–
wind
speed,
water
depth
and
distance
from
shore.
GL
Garrad
Hassan
reckons
environmental
and
social
constraints,
plus
“a
further
80%
rate
of
attrition
due
to
constraints
not
considered”,
would
still
work
out
to
a
wind
capacity
of
some
40GW
–
a
figure
said
to
meet
national
renewable
energy
action
plan
targets
in
all
the
BASREC
countries
and
to
“go
substantially
beyond
in
many”.
“While
substantial
work
on
strategic
environmental
assessments…
