A
long
and
growing
list
of
foreign
turbine
manufacturers
had
committed
themselves
to
building
factories
on
British
soil;
project
developers
had
every
reason
to
believe
the
government
would
calm
investors’
nerves
with
its
Electricity
Market
Reform
(EMR)
package;
and
the
industry
had
a
powerful
ally
in
energy
secretary
Chris
Huhne.
Germany’s
offshore
wind
programme,
by
comparison,
appeared
a
shambles.
Despite
Bremerhaven’s
prescient
decision
a
decade
ago
to
embrace
offshore
wind,
hardly
any
capacity
had
been
built
in
German
waters,
and
investors
were
tepid
—
and
that
was…
