Participants at this week's EWEA 2015 industry fair in Paris cast 724 votes for the Dutch capital, versus 630 for Brussels.

"Amsterdam will run a great event. The Netherlands has great ambitions for both onshore and offshore wind," EWEA chief executive Giles Dickson told Recharge.

"They are in the process of launching seven tenders for 500MW of offshore wind. They have their EU presidency just around the corner and they will use that to push offshore wind for the whole of the North Sea."

Dickson