China has stormed past the UK to become the leading market for offshore wind. This week, the country’s National Energy Administration (NEA) released figures showing that it had installed more capacity in 2021 that the rest of the world had managed in the past five years combined. The 16.9 GW installed over the past twelve months more than doubles the cumulative offshore wind capacity in China, bringing it to 27 GW in total – nearly half of the global total of 54 GW. This also blows it far past the UK, which has previously held the title for the world’s largest offshore wind market and is likely to only publish an 11 GW total capacity figure for the end of…