Offshore Wind Worldwide 2022 edition - Flipbook - Page 53
Offshore Wind Worldwide 2022
I. State and future
of Offshore Wind Projects
Denmark has the longest history of offshore
wind energy production in the world with the
establishment of its first wind farm in 1991.
Currently, the total capacity of the OWFs
constitutes 1699 MW, with several projects
in the pipeline over the coming years.
Denmark’s goal is to be independent of coal,
oil and gas by 2050. Under the Energy
Agreement of 29 June 2018, entered by
Danish Parliament and Government, three
large-scale OWFs with a total of 2400 MW
capacity will be constructed by 2027 and
2030. Thor OWF is the first of the three large
OWFs to be build. The tender for Thor OWF
was decided in December 2021 by the
drawing of lots as all of the six bidders
offered to build the OWF with the largest
possible capacity and at the minimum price
of 0.01 øre/kWh. Thor OWF will consist of
80-100 OWTGs with a total capacity of 800
MW-1000 MW. The offshore substation and
export cable was included in the scope of the
tender for Thor OWF.
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In June 2020, the Danish Government and
parties of the Parliament agreed on a Climate
Agreement where one of the main topics is
the development of more OWFs. The parties
to the agreement have agreed to develop the
second wind farm from the Energy
Agreement 2018 at Hesselø near the island
of Bornholm with a capacity of 800-1.200
MW. In addition, the agreement introduces
an initiative to establish two energy islands.
One of the energy islands will be at
Bornholm to which the Hesselø OWF and an
additional 2 GW capacity will be connected.
The second energy island will be located in
the North Sea with a capacity of 3 GW by
2030 and the possibility of a minimum of 10
GW in the future.
The planning of the tender for Hesselø OFW,
has been put on hold as the preliminary site
investigation has revealed soft clay
formations below the seabed. The third
OWF-project is yet to be announced.
The Danish Parliament adopted a Climate
Act in June 2020 which entails that
Denmark shall reduce greenhouse gas
emissions by 70 per cent by 2030. In order to
fulfil this objective, the Danish Government
will work towards introducing more green
energy projects in the near future.