706 MW. Germany and China are other major players; China led the world in new installations with more than 3 GW of offshore wind grid connected in 2020 - but markets are opening up worldwide. In October Taiwan’s chamber of commerce organised a 1000-participant (virtual and physical) event with the aim of expanding its present two wind farms to become the second- largest offshore wind market in Asia (after mainland China), a programme that includes upscaling port infrastructure and generating renewable hydrogen from offshore wind. Such a project - the first in the world - is already underway in the North Sea with a pilot offshore hydrogen plant ten kilometres off the coast of Holland. In September the Global Wind
Energy Council forecast that 235 GW of new offshore wind f
