- The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) is consulting on the strategic environmental assessment (SEA) of the plan for offshore wind farms (OWF).
- DEA will decide what topics and environmental impacts to be included in the SEA for the OWFs in Nordsøen I, Kattegat II and Kriegers Flak II.
The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) is consulting on the strategic environmental assessment (SEA) of the plan for offshore wind farms (OWF) in the areas Nordsøen 2, Kattegat 2 and Kriegers Flak 2. The signatory parties of the Climate Agreement on green electricity and heat of 25th June 2022 have decided that a minimum of 4GW offshore wind capacity has to be tendered for construction before the end of 2030.
Furthermore, it was decided with the Danish Financial Act of 2022 that further 2GW OWFs should be tendered before the end of 2030. With a supplementary agreement regarding Energy Island Bornholm, it was decided afterwards that one of the 2GW should be part of Energy Island Bornholm, which capacity was expanded from 2 to 3GW. However, to ensure that the OWFs can be entirely constructed before the end of 2030, the DEA is initiating planning, environmental assessments and preliminary investigations of several areas which have been assessed as suitable for establishing OWFs.
The public hearings of the SEAs for Nordsøen I, Kattegat II and Kriegers Flak II are early public consultations in the scoping phase, which runs from 6th March to 31st March 2023. Based on the ideas and inputs received during the consultation, the DEA will decide what topics and environmental impacts to be included in the SEA for the OWFs in Nordsøen I, Kattegat II and Kriegers Flak II. The results of the SEA will be published and subject to a public consultation, which is expected to take place in the first half of 2024.