Dan Jørgensen, Denmark's Minister of Climate, Energy and Utilities said that Denmark and Europe "must free of Russian fossil fuels as fast as possible."
According to ZME Science, the country will have to "massively increase" the deployment of renewable energy on land and offshore.
Denmark's commitment to renewable energy is mostly related to wind energy, as it made up about 50% of the country's total energy production in 2021, followed by bioenergy and fossil fuels.
In order to limit the use of fossil fuels as much as possible, Denmark plans to get the required energy from energy island farms deployed at sea.
Since these energy islands can be placed further away from the coast, they can distribute the generated power between multiple countries more easily.
The current plan includes the development of two islands, one being located in the North Sea, first with 3 gigawatts (GW) of offshore capacity, which will be later extended to 10GW.
The turbines that will be deployed will be larger than before and will be placed farther away, in order to be more efficient and to produce more energy.
The second island will be placed in the Baltic Sea, more specifically on the island of Bornholm, and the produced electricity will go through the grid to Denmark and other neighboring countries.
The total capacity will be of 2GW, enough for around two million households.
Energinet, the company in charge of developing the project, has launched preliminary studies on the seabed around Bornholm and the North Sea area where the wind farms would be placed.
The studies are meant to help with regards to finding the best spot for building the wind farms, while also having the least environmental impact.
Denmark is one of the countries that has quite a bit of experience when it comes to harnessing offshore winds to produce electricity, with the first wind farm of this kind being deployed back in 1991.
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