OFFSHORE WIND Ӏ SECTOR REPORT


BLoWING IN THE WIND


Wind power is one of the most important renewable energy sources available to us. Wind farms, offshore wind farms in particular, are growing; but their size and location set special lifting challenges. Julian Champkin reports.


As a growth sector it is little short of astonishing. Offshore wind has grown from almost nothing a decade ago to a current installed capacity of 35 GW worldwide, and progress is only accelerating. Britain has currently more capacity


Liebherr cranes tandem-lift turbine blades for loading


installed than any other country; the largest wind farm in the world, and the first ever to exceed 1GW of power, is the 1.2 GW Hornsea Project One, off Yorkshire; in 2022 it will be overtaken by its sister project Hornsea Two which will


power well over 1.3 million homes. By 2030 the UK will be getting about a third of its electricity from offshore wind.


The Netherlands installed


nearly 1.5 GW of offshore wind in 2020, followed by Belgium with


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