Delivering Offshore Wind Power in Europe: Policy Recommendations for Large-scale Deployment of Offshore Wind Power in Europe by 2020

The European Wind Energy Association
http://www.ewea.org/fileadmin/ewea_documents/images/publications/offshore_report/ewea-offshore_report.pdf

[From introduction] The report estimates that between 20 GW and 40 GW of offshore wind energy capacity will be operating in the European Union by 2020. A fully developed European offshore wind resource could deliver a capacity of several hundred GW to supply our future energy demands. Developing less than 5% of the North Sea surface area would enable offshore wind to supply roughly one-quarter of the EU’s current electricity needs. [WSJ Environmental Capital]

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