Reuters: E.ON (EONG.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) is to apply for planning permission on Monday to build one of the UK’s largest offshore wind farms, hoping the Ministry of Defence will drop its objections to the project, the German utility said. The 300-meagwatt Humber Gateway wind farm, which E.ON hopes to build 8 kms off the coast of East Yorkshire, is expected to cost about 700 million pounds ($1.40 billion) to build. "The next generation of large-scale offshore wind farms like …