Denmark must have wind islands in 2030 that can produce 3 GW of wind power initially and 10 GW in the long term.
Two solutions are being worked on for a future solution, respectively a platform solution or the establishment and containment of an artificial island solution.
It is not yet known which solution the Danish Parliament prefers to work with.
Now the parties behind the VindØ consortium: Copenhagen Industri Partners (CIP), PensionDanmark, PFA and Andel have presented a visualization of their solution, which is a contained artificial island, and which is the solution they prefer.
See the visualization below:
Ørsted warns against the wrong solution
However, Ørsted does not agree that an artificial island would be the best solution. The company fears that the use of what Ørsted describes as new technology could become the IC4 case for offshore wind, and thus be an unnecessarily expensive solution. Instead, a steel platform should be chosen.
However, this criticism aroused surprise at CIP at the time.
- A steel platform has one purpose, and that is to be a high-voltage converter. The island creates many more opportunities, and it creates innovative power. Because it is a new breakthrough that they are focusing on creating large-scale energy storage and Power-to-X on the island itself, says senior advisor Michael Ertmann, CIP.
It is still unclear when a final decision will be made on which solution Danish energy islands will be established according to.
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