Offshore Buildouts Test Local Permitting

Concentrated offshore projects (east England focus in the auction) force fast permitting, ports, cabling and local supply‑chain deployment; friction in those local systems—not just wind economics—will be the rate‑limiting step for capacity hitting the grid on schedule. — How quickly these awarded projects actually deliver power depends less on turbine technology than on whether permitting, ports, and transmission planning are executed in parallel—an operational bottleneck with national consequences.