A broad majority in the Danish Parliament on Thursday reached an agreement on the construction and ownership of a new artificial energy island in the North Sea. The artificial island will be located 80 kilometers out in the North Sea and will be the largest construction project in Danish history with a price tag of 210 billion kroner.
The Danish consortium VindØ, consisting of Andel, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and the pension companies PensionDanmark and PFA, is not surprisingly interested in bidding for this task. Andel's chairman Jens Stenbæk tells Sjællandske Nyheder.
- We want to help advance the green transition, and it must be said that this project does that. So it is an opportunity that we have to pursue, says Jens Stenbæk.
Already in May last year, the consortium signed up to build the planned energy island in the North Sea, initially with up to 400 million DKK to develop the project.
Despite the fact that the state will be the main owner of the island, and that the island will not be ready until 2033 versus 2030 earlier, the interest is still there.
- Given that this is critical infrastructure, it does not surprise me that there is a majority in the Folketinget that wants this to be primarily state-owned or consumer-owned. The timetable then extends further into the future than we thought. We must study this in further work. But that is absolutely nothing that changes our approach, says Jens Stenbæk.
In mid-January, the VindØ consortium also came up with a visualization of their vision for the project. You can see it in the video below.
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