Wind Power Generates 140% Of Denmark’s Electricity Needs...It may be for 1 day..But it shows the extent of non conventional sources in Denmark's power landscape!
In Brief Wind power generated 140% of Denmark’s electricity demand last Thursday, which allowed the country to export some of its power to neighboring Norway, Germany, and Sweden.
The figures emerged on the website of the Danish transmission systems operator, energinet.dk, which provides a minute-by-minute account of renewable power in the national grid. The site shows that Denmark’s windfarms were not even operating at their full 4.8GW capacity at the time of yesterday’s peaks.
According to figures, Denmark generated 116% of the nation’s electricity needs from wind turbines. By 3am on Friday morning, with the winds still blowing strong, that figure had increased to 140%. Interconnectors allowed 80% of the power surplus to be shared equally between Germany and Norway, which can store it in hydropower systems for use later. Sweden took the remaining fifth of excess power.
A surge in windfarm installations means Denmark could be producing half of its electricity from renewable sources well before a target date of 2020, according to Kees van der Leun, the chief commercial officer of the Ecofys energy consultancy.
Read more at: http://futurism.com/links/view/wind...f-denmarks-electricity-needs-2/?noheader=true
In Brief Wind power generated 140% of Denmark’s electricity demand last Thursday, which allowed the country to export some of its power to neighboring Norway, Germany, and Sweden.
The figures emerged on the website of the Danish transmission systems operator, energinet.dk, which provides a minute-by-minute account of renewable power in the national grid. The site shows that Denmark’s windfarms were not even operating at their full 4.8GW capacity at the time of yesterday’s peaks.
According to figures, Denmark generated 116% of the nation’s electricity needs from wind turbines. By 3am on Friday morning, with the winds still blowing strong, that figure had increased to 140%. Interconnectors allowed 80% of the power surplus to be shared equally between Germany and Norway, which can store it in hydropower systems for use later. Sweden took the remaining fifth of excess power.
A surge in windfarm installations means Denmark could be producing half of its electricity from renewable sources well before a target date of 2020, according to Kees van der Leun, the chief commercial officer of the Ecofys energy consultancy.
Read more at: http://futurism.com/links/view/wind...f-denmarks-electricity-needs-2/?noheader=true
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