At the beginning of February, it was five years since the government, together with a broad majority in the Folketing, presented plans for an artificial energy island in the North Sea, which was to become Denmark's largest construction project ever. The project was estimated at up to 210 billion. DKK, but today stands without concrete results, after 623 million. DKK has already been spent without a single wind turbine being erected. This is reported by Ekstra Bladet.
The energy island was launched as a central element in the green transition and was to eventually supply electricity to up to three million households. Today, the project has been put on hold, but it never got off the ground, is the assessment of Jan Bentzen, professor emeritus of economics at Aarhus University. He describes the Energy Island in the North Sea as "a fantasy project from the start"
- It remains that it has become a wildly ambitious project, because they want to be a pioneer with an energy island. But there was perhaps a reason why no one else came up with that particular idea. It was simply too unrealistic and too expensive, says the former professor.
Criticism of the project has, among other things, been about the economy and the lack of socio-economic calculations. According to a memo from 2020, it was otherwise assessed that the energy island could generate a surplus of 13 billion. DKK over 30 years, but the assessment was later challenged by experts who pointed to the risk of significant deficits. Minister of Climate, Energy and Utilities Lars Aagaard (M) acknowledges Jan Bentzen's criticism of the economy.
- I think he is objectively right about that. The only thing I would just like to add is that around 2020 there were signals from the wind turbine industry and others that showed that it could be done. But it has just turned out that it did not work.
So far, the official statements are that the Energy Island in the North Sea will not be ready until 2036 at the earliest. And Lars Aagaard also stated on the fifth anniversary of the presentation that he does not see "an energy island being built in the North Sea anytime soon".
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