Denmark banks on offshore wind power for 'clean' future - AFP

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Source: Agence France-Presse

Denmark banks on offshore wind power for 'clean' future

by Slim Allagui
2 hours, 10 minutes ago

ESBJERG, Denmark (AFP) - Denmark, a world leader in wind energy
production and consumption, has built the world's largest offshore
wind park in the North Sea as it aims to generate 75 percent of its
electricity needs with wind power by 2025.

Looking out from the port of Esbjerg, the blades of 80 giant wind
turbines rotate high in the sky at the Horns Reef wind farm some
20 kilometers (12 miles) offshore.

The 160 megawatts of wind energy capacity generated by the
park is enough to meet the needs of 150,000 homes for a full
year.

Horns Reef is the newest of Denmark's 11 offshore parks
constructed since 1991. Offshore wind power now totals a
capacity of 398 megawatts, or 12 percent of the some 3,100
megawatts of wind energy generated in Denmark in 2006.

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