Annual installations peaked in Germany in 2002, in Spain in 2007. The growth curves were similar, that's a phase delay. But what both show is the superiority of feed-in laws over certification systems (as used in Denmark or the UK). *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
I suspect that the plan is to do the same thing using the shipbuilding cluster with offshore work. Also, the region is at the forefront of marine energy. Portugal had the largest project currently, but there are projects using bouys at Santona. (Sorry it's in Spanish.)
And there's a really cool project using wind pressure from breakwaters.
There's the grand policy here with tariffs and such, and then there's regional industrial policy based around using the local government to facilitate the development of industrial clusters with backward and forward links. The backward links mean that they breath new life into industries that are on the decline. Forward links means that they open the door to other types of new industries. Like the wind energy cluster around Bilbao did for offshore wind and marine energy. There's even some hope that the solar industry will be able to link into the mirror production that's in place to supply the auto industry in the area.
I ramble. This is going to be my dissertation. And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
I suggest that in that context, you to look at and add the examples in Eastern Germany. Like at the Great Lakes region, flat land and not much off-shore in Brandenburg or Sachsen-Anhalt, but wind installations expanded rapidly, Enercon was first to build a wind turbine factory in the local 'rust belt', and there is in particular a large number of new photovoltaics companies and factories. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
great combo/use of real estate. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
In Ireland solar power workers would go on strike in protest against excessive wind if it meant they hand to work too hard... runs... (ok, racist, classist, post colonial, bourgeois propaganda, but what the hell - we go home on a sunny day (to save the harvest) because the sun shines so rarely) notes from no w here
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin