Of course, calmer heads know the industry remains one of the fastest-growing in the world, as three key developments in the past few days illustrate.
First, the consortium of Portugal’s EDP Renováveis and Spain’s Repsol announced it had submitted its consent application for the 1.5GW Moray Firth offshore wind development zone. The joint venture beat Germany’s E.ON, which had planned to submit its Rampion application by the autumn, and other front- runners such as the SmartWind