The European offshore wind industry — having halved its levelised cost of energy in two years and on course to start building zero-subsidy developments in the Northern Seas early in the next decade — could be resting at anchor. Far from it.
In recent weeks, the sector has raised its ambitions higher still. Norwegian energy giant Statoil (soon to be renamed Equinor) unveiled plans to help restart Poland’s stalled 8GW-plus offshore market with a lead off investment in the country’s swathe of the Baltic.
