We were all convinced that offshore was going to take off in a big way, supplying up to a third of the electricity for the countries around the North Sea within not too many years.

Well, it didn’t work out that way — at least it hasn’t yet. The development of offshore wind has been slower, more expensive and more politically difficult than originally thought, and although we may be over the hump in Europe in terms of engineering and technology, there are still political bumps in the road.

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