Ambitious plans to expand offshore wind energy in German waters could mean that up to a quarter of the county’s exclusive economic zone in the North Sea and Baltic Sea will be covered by wind farms, according to government calculations. According to figures from the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, offshore wind farms would take up around 20% to 25% of the area. “It should not be forgotten that a wind farm consists of individual turbines that are 800 to 1,000 metres apart,” the agency’s Nico Nolte said on Tuesday in Hamburg. The zone includes almost 33,000 square kilometres in the Nor…