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CT: In 2011 the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) published scenarios for offshore wind energy deployment in Europe, expecting 40 GW of installed offshore wind energy capacity by 2020.
Offshore wind deployment in Europe is currently lagging behind the NREAP targets by an average of 14%.
By June 2013, 6 GW of generation capacity was installed across Europe, suggesting that the over 9 GW target set out in the NREAPs for end 2013 will not be reached.
The French and German markets in particular are significantly behind their deployment targets. Their NREAP targets for 2012 were 670 MW and 790 MW respectively, but France has yet to bring any offshore wind on line and deployment in Germany was 385.3 MW in June 2013.

S: http://www.ewea.org/fileadmin/files/library/publications/reports/Financing_Offshore_Wind_Farms.pdf (last access: 11 February 2015)

N: 1. offshore (adj): off-shore, also off shore, 1720, from off + shore (n.). American English use for “other than the U.S.” is from 1948 and the Marshall Plan.
wind (n): “air in motion,” Old English wind “wind,” from Proto-Germanic windaz, from PIE we-nt-o- “blowing,” from root we- “to blow”.
energy (n): 1590s, “force of expression,” from Middle French énergie (16c.), from Late Latin energia, from Greek energeia “activity, action, operation,” from energos “active, working,” from en “at” + ergon “work, that which is wrought; business; action”.
Used by Aristotle with a sense of “actuality, reality, existence” (opposed to “potential”) but this was misunderstood in Late Latin and afterward as “force of expression,” as the power which calls up realistic mental pictures. Broader meaning of “power” in English is first recorded 1660s. Scientific use is from 1807. Energy crisis first attested 1970.
2. The kinetic energy from wind and its potential development at some distance from shore, as opposed to land-based wind energy.
3. The use of the offshore wind energy in German waters predominantly takes place outside the 12 sea mile zone in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). With this, the majority of the planned projects and those still in operation is located in the high seas of the German North and Baltic Sea. As at June 2014, 628 MW of offshore wind capacity was being connected to the grid in Germany. By 2030, a capacity of 15,000 MW is to be connected to the grid according to the plans of the Federal Government.

S: 1. OED – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=off&searchmode=none; http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=wind+energy&searchmode=none (last access: 10 February 2015). 2. TERMIUMPLUS. 3. http://www.offshore-windenergie.net/en/wind-farms (last access: 10 February 2015).

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CR: wind energy, wind turbine (1).