
Understanding how fast offshore wind is actually progressing means checking permitting and generation-stage data separately from policy targets.
Saying offshore wind is growing can be misleading unless you separate announced plans from actual commercial operation. This list organizes 10 official and authoritative sources for policy, permitting, generation performance, and international statistics.
When reading these, distinguish announced capacity from operating capacity, fixed-bottom from floating, and domestic survey standards from international ones. Since survey timing and update dates differ, the same-looking indicator can mean different things β check each source's baseline before comparing multiple ones side by side.