Swedish energy group Vattenfall and offshore wind turbine manufacturer MHI Vestas joined with the Crown Prince of Denmark and Danish Prime Minister last Thursday to open the country’s largest offshore wind farm, the 407 megawatt (MW) Horns Reef 3.
Leading offshore wind company Ørsted has announced the results of a strategic review of its downstream business and concluded that it will move to divest its Danish power distribution and residential customer business in favor of doubling down on its green energy businesses.
Danish energy company DONG Energy announced earlier this month that it had divested its Danish gas distribution business to Energinet.dk. In a move tied in with the company’s intentions to launch an initial public offering (IPO), DONG Energy announced that it had divested its Danish gas distribution company, DONG Gas … [continued]
Denmark has set another record-breaking year for wind power generation in 2015, generating 42% of the country’s electricity consumption needs. According to new figures revealed by Energinet, Denmark’s electricity utility, the country saw its wind turbines generate the equivalent of 42% of its electricity consumption. In Jutland and on Funen, … [continued]
ABB has won an order to build a cable system that will integrate the Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm off the coast of Denmark to the national mainland grid, an order worth over $100 million. Based in Zurch and a self-proclaimed “leader in power and automation technologies,” ABB will lay … [continued]
Denmark has officially enshrined their climate goals into law, as has been reported in several locations over the past 24 hours. The official Danish Twitter account (@denmarkdotdk) linked to a post on website ‘tcktcktck.org’, confirming reports that the ruling party — the Social Democrats — along with the Conservative People’s Party, … [continued]
The Danish Energy Agency announced earlier this week that consumption of renewable energy had increased in 2011 by 2.5% thanks in part to a big push in wind-power production. Based on the European Union method of calculation, Denmark saw renewable energy account for 23.6% of energy consumption in 2011, at … [continued]
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Denmark is taking major steps towards a greener future, passing an agreement that the Danish Minister for Climate, Energy and Building, Martin Lidegaard, says is “the broadest, the greenest, and the most long-term energy agreement that has ever been reached in Denmark.” The agreement establishes a framework for the policy … [continued]
Countries like the Ukraine, Poland, Pakistan, and Brazil have not previously been required to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Last month at Durban, that changed. Orders from nations like these boosted year-end wind turbine business at Danish wind giant Vestas.
The company ended 2011 with a total 6.2 GW of orders, and said that late orders coming in will be included in its annual report due early February, which are expected to take the total over 6.5 GW.
The flurry of orders came a month after international climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa, delivered a surprise stipulation that every nation has agreed to, to share binding, international cuts in greenhouse gas emissions within just 8 years.
