Ten new offshore wind farms came online across five countries, according to report by Wind Europe.
The United Kingdom accounted for nearly half of the new capacity with 1.7 gigawatts. Then came Germany (1.1 gigawatts), Denmark (374 megawatts) and Belgium (370 megawatts). And Portugal installed 8 megawatts of floating offshore wind. Europe now has 22 gigawatts of offshore wind. The United Kingdom and Germany account for three-quarters of it. Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands share nearly all of the rest.
The average size of the offshore turbines installed in 2019 was 7.8 megawatts. A 12-megawatt offshore wind turbine was installed in Rotterdam. Offshore wind farms are also getting bigger. The average size doubled — it was 300 megawatts in 2010; now it is more than 600 megawatts. The larges
