But two recent announcements will strike a light for those working to get the next generation of supersized turbines road-tested for installation off Europe in the coming decade.

Irec, the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research, last week inked a deal with Germany’s EWE Offshore Services & Solutions – operator of the Alpha Ventus wind power lab in the German North Sea – to speed up development off northeastern Spain of the 70MW Zefir offshore wind test station.

The