“We hope for stable framework conditions so that we can reach a FID [on Arkona Becken Südost] at the end of 2014 or in early 2015,” Holger Matthiesen, project manager for Arkona at E.ON Climate and Renewables Central Europe, told an offshore wind conference in Hamburg.

Plans by energy minister Sigmar Gabriel to reform Germany’s Renewable Energies Act, EEG, which have been subject to several changes over the past couple of months, have made investors hesitant to opt for fresh FIDs in German offshore projects.

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