“The faster such a [support] system comes, the better,” Hall said during the inauguration of the 288MW DanTysk offshore wind park in Hamburg last week.

"We at Vattenfall feel fit to participate in any interesting tender and contribute to the build-up of renewables, also here in Germany.”

Germany’s government currently is in talks with the offshore wind industry about plans to introduce national offshore wind tenders as early as in the fall of 2016 as part of an effort to move the country’s renewables market from a feed-in tariff style set-up to a more “market-based” system, in line with European Commission guidelines.

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