Europe will witness a huge expansion in the amount of wind energy produced, especially offshore, new targets by the industry body have revealed. Under new targets agreed by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) at its recent annual general meeting in Kassel, Germany, wind capacity in European countries has been increased from 40 gigaWatts (GW) to 60GW installed capacity by 2010, of which 5GW are expected to be offshore capacity.