GALWAY, IRELAND--January 31, 2013 --Written by Martin Lynch, European News Editor for Industrial Info (Galway, Ireland) Europe's offshore wind sector continued its rapid rise in 2012 with the installation and grid connection of 293 turbines. Despite challenging economic and political conditions, the new turbines installed represented a generation capacity of 1,165-megawatts (MW), up 33% on the 874 MW installed in 2011, according to the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).