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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10429
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GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/energy

Offshore wind power continues to expand

Brussels, 28/07/2011 (Agence Europe) - The latest figures of the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) highlight a “comfortable 4.5% increase in installations of offshore capacity compared to the first half of 2010”. EWEA states in a press release of 27 July that 101 new offshore wind turbines with a total capacity of 348 megawatt (MW) were connected to the power grids in the UK, Germany and Norway during the first six months of 2011. In Europe, there are currently under construction...