REpower willgradually reduce employees at its PowerBlades unit to about 300 in August, froma peak of close to 700 in December, after a large offshore contract for 240blades from utility EnBW was put on hold, said Norbert Giese, vice presidentfor offshore development.

“If you prepare(production) in expectation of a large order and it doesn’t get commissioned asthought, then it is clear that the company needs to react,” Giese told Recharge.

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