“Sixty-five per cent of all investigated offshore wind patents come fromGermany. That is a very good result and shows an innovative and highlytechnological sector,” WAB managing director Ronny Meyer says.

Institutes such as the centre for wind energy researchForWind, the Fraunhofer institute for wind energy and energy system technology, and the German centre for aviation and space travel DLR are settinginternational standards in wind energy research, WAB stresses.

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