‘Impossible’ targets and ‘big guys v little guys’: Recharge offshore wind summit blows into Oslo

European offshore wind targets were labelled impossible to meet and the “big guys” and the “little guys” clashed over floating wind at an eventful Recharge Global Offshore Wind Summit in Oslo.

Sector leaders gathered in the Norwegian capital last week for discussion and debate on offshore wind, which has had a tumultuous year marked by supply chain pressures, spiralling inflation and, consequently, major project cancellations.

Torgeir Knutsen, who is currently on secondment as a policy officer at the Directorate-General of the European Commission from Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, opened the event by saying that while ambition in the sector has risen “quite dramatically” this will “not come for free”.