European offshore 'faces €50bn funding gap'

Anholt offshore wind farm, in which Danish pension fund PensionDanmark is an  investor
Europe's plans for offshore wind power up to 2020 could face a funding gap of as much as €50bn ($65.5bn), the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) warns in a study.

Europe's 15 leading utilities over the past three years invested an average of €12bn per annum in renewable energy, BCG calculates.

If this volume was to be sustained up to 2020, and half the total annual sum was sunk into offshore wind each year, this would amount to €40bn of capital expenditure.

Another €20bn could be provided by private and state banks over the same period, if they embraced the sector.

But BCG claims a total €110bn is needed to reach targets under EU renewable energy plans of 40GW of installed capacity Log in to read complete article.

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