- Ørsted and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners to develop 5.2 GW of offshore wind projects.
- The projects would more than double Denmark’s current installed offshore wind capacity.
Ørsted and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners agreed to develop around 5.2 GW of offshore wind in Denmark across four projects. The projects include Vikinge Banke (1.1 GW) and Jyske Banke Nord (1.1 GW) in the North Sea, and Bornholm Bassin Syd (1.5 GW) and Bornholm Basin Øst (1.5 GW) in the Baltic Sea.
The projects would more than double Denmark’s current installed offshore wind capacity.
The European Commission estimates that by 2030, a double-digit-billion amount of euros will be invested in so-called Power-to-X technology. The development partners said wind energy could be used to enable large-scale production of renewable hydrogen or green fuels.
In turn, this renewable hydrogen could be fed into the international hydrogen infrastructure that is on the drawing board in Northern Europe, turning the Danish North Sea and Baltic Sea regions into growth centres for renewable energy production.
Government tenders for offshore wind could help Denmark to realize its 70% carbon emission reduction target for 2030. A market is also expected among industries that depend on international gas and oil imports, leading to increased energy independence and more significant carbon reductions by 2030.