Post by account_disabled on Mar 9, 2024 4:51:56 GMT -6
Last February, the Danish Government gave the green light to a project to build an artificial island that will provide enough energy for three million Danish homes.
It is the world's first energy island and will be the size of 18 football fields (120,000 square meters), but is expected to be three times larger and will harness the energy of 200 offshore wind turbines.
This project will be the largest construction in the history of Denmark and will have an estimated cost of 210 billion crowns (about 28 billion euros), with a public participation of 50%.
On the island, wind energy will be Ecuador Mobile Number List converted into hydrogen and later into liquid fuel, which would solve two problems: how to store renewable energy and how to introduce it into the transportation sector, since it is also intended to be used for ships, planes and trucks.
Through the Danish government's adoption of the 2018 Energy Agreement and the 2019 Climate Action Plan, the country has committed to an ambitious 70% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and to become in a CO2 neutral country by 2050. In fact, last December the country announced that it would end all new oil and gas exploration in the North Sea.
On the other hand, a smaller energy island is also being planned off Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, which will also supply electricity to Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.
These two artificial islands are part of a more ambitious project that includes two other wind farms on land:
On the one hand, the Thor wind farm, which will be located in the North Sea and will have an installed electrical power of between 800 and 1,000 megawatts to supply electricity to 800,000 homes and which has a budget of more than 2,000 million euros and, on the other hand, the Hesselø park, located in the Kattegat Strait. With this project, it is intended to add another between 800 and 1,000 megawatts to the national electricity distribution network.
Currently, we are witnessing profound transformations in the energy ecosystem in which the European Union wants to be the leader. In fact, last November the bloc announced plans to multiply offshore wind capacity by 25 by 2050 and it appears that Denmark will have a significant share of production.
Today, across the European Union, offshore wind energy supplies 12 gigawatts, of which Denmark supplies 1.7. The new island will supply up to 10 gigawatts when at full capacity, along with another 2 gigawatts from the island of Bornholm.
According to European plans, by 2050 the entire bloc would have to produce 300 gigawatts.