Europe's wind industry stormed ahead throughout 2020 and increased the amount of orders by 74 percent to a record 15 GW.
The sector thereby avoided the Covid crisis entirely and saw its order books get thicker within both onshore and offshore, writes European trade association WindEurope in a press release.
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