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Denmark’s 12th wind farm now online
One of the world's largest offshore wind farms, Rødsand 2, located south of the island of Lolland, was inaugurated on October 12, 2010. Danish Minister for Climate and Energy Lykke Friis attended the opening of the facility, which in the future may provide the equivalent of 200,000 homes with green energy.
Under a bright autumn sun and half an hour out at sea, Danish Climate and Energy Minitser Lykke Friis did the official ribbon cutting on the platform of one of the 115-meter high wind turbines making up the Rødsand 2 wind farm, officially inaugurate the country’s newest offshore wind farm.
“The Government’s goal is to make Denmark independent of fossil fuels by the year 2050. Over the coming months, we will devise a strategy for how we are to achieve these ambitious goals, but I can already say with certainty that offshore wind will be a pivotal component in our transition to a society based on renewable energy. For this reason, the inauguration of Rødsand 2 is also a celebration of a great step taken toward a future free of coal, oil and gas,” says Friis.
Rødsand 2 is run by E.ON, which began the construction of the facility during the spring of 2009. The offshore wind farm comprises 90 wind turbines with a total output of 207 megawatts, and will produce 800 million kilowatt hours annually.
“Wind farms like Rødsand 2 are not only beneficial to the climate and Denmark's supply safety. The turbines of the park are, in fact, mainly built in Denmark, and have thus provided many Danish jobs over the past two years,” says Friis.
Rødsand 2 is the 12th offshore wind farm in Denmark, which now has more wind farms than any other country.
The decision to build Rødsand 2 was made official as part of the Energy Policy Agreement of March 29, 2004, with the support of the Liberal-Conservative Government, the Social Democrats, the Socialist People’s Party, the Social Liberals and the Christian Democrats.
The Government and the parties voting for the energy agreement have decided to expand the nation’s offshore wind power capacity by undertaking the largest such project in the nation’s history, the 400 MW offshore wind farm off the island of Anholt. It is scheduled for completion in 2012/2013. Looking ahead, suitable areas for the construction of several more wind farms in Denmark have already been identified, including the possibility of collaborating with Germany to establish the 600 MW Kriegers Flak project.
The Danish Commission on Climate Change Policy designates off-shore wind as one of the most important sources of renewable energy and recommends a major expansion of its capacity in the coming years.
In addition to wind, the Commission identified biomass as another important source of renewable energy.
