The EU’s hugely ambitious plans to construct at least 300GW of offshore wind power plant in its waters by mid-century as an engine for its energy transition strategy is doomed to fail without rapidly geared-up, multi-billion-euro scale investment in ports, advocacy body WindEurope has warned.

The organisation, which in November 2019 produced a report outlining how the bloc could build out its offshore wind fleet to support the region’s energy transition, underlined that a €6.5bn