The government will be the first country in the world to establish two energy islands in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, respectively. This is stated in the government's Climate Action Plan.
It also states that the government proposes that Bornholm be made into one energy island by establishing and connecting up to 2 GW of offshore wind by 2030 at the latest with connections to Zealand and Poland.
It is a proposal that naturally arouses jubilation on the sunny island.
- We are pleased that Bornholm has been designated as an energy island, that a 2 GW offshore wind farm is proposed to be located here and that the Baltic Sea region is being prioritized, so that the climate and energy ambitions now also apply east of the Great Belt, so that all of Denmark benefits from the employment effects that are in the wake of the construction of offshore wind farms in Denmark, says Thomas Bendtsen, CEO of Rønne Havn A/S in a press release.
Bornholm is already well positioned and prepared in relation to the plans. Already last year, Ørsted proposed to place an offshore wind farm at Bornholm on the already screened area on Rønne Banke and at the same time make Bornholm an energy center by establishing a transformer station on Bornholm as the logical cable link between Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Poland.
- There is no doubt that Bornholm is extremely well equipped to be the center of the energy industry in the East. We have built a modern and climate-safe 150,000 square meter port area, which is specially designed to be able to handle the heavy project loads, in the form of e.g. wind turbine parts from the offshore wind industry, and where the new quay structures have a load-bearing capacity that is highly competitive in the international market in which our port operates. This means that we have exactly the right infrastructure available, says Thomas Bendtsen.
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