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On Thursday, high winds allowed Denmark to meet all of its electricity needs, with plenty to spare for neighboring countries.

On a particularly windy day (last Thursday), the country of Denmark was able to meet its domestic electricity demand and even export power to Norway, Germany, and Sweden thanks to its wind farms.

As The Guardian reports, Denmark found itself producing 116% of its national electricity needs from wind turbines, and by 3 AM the next morning (Friday), when electricity demand dropped, the figure had risen to 140%.

80% of the power surplus was shared equally between Germany and Norway, which can store it in hydropower systems for later use. Lucky Sweden received the remaining fifth of excess power.


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[size=4pt]“It shows that a world powered 100% by renewable energy is no fantasy. Wind energy and renewables can be a solution to decarbonization – and also security of supply at times of high demand.”[/size]

As you can see below, figures from the Danish transmission systems operator, emergent.dk, which provides a minute-by-minute account of renewable power in the nation grid, showed that Denmark’s wind farms weren’t even operating at their full 4.8GW capacity.

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According to the chief commercial officer of the Ecofys energy consultancy, Kees van der Leun, a surge in wind farm installations could allow Denmark to produce half of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020 – that’s only five years away.

Not everyone is likely to be happy about this news, however. As The Guardian shares, the British wind industry is likely to view the Danish achievement with envy.

This is no doubt because David Cameron’s government announced a withdrawal of support for onshore wind farms from next year, and planning obstacles for onshore wind builds.

Around three-quarters of Denmark’s wind capacity presently comes from onshore wind farms, which have strong government backing. One thing is for sure, the country is definitely putting the rest of the world to shame with these figures.

http://humansarefree.com/2015/07/denmark-just-produced-140-of-its.html

and we are here?

see this country utilizing their natural resource >wind!

we experience sunshine like mad here...i dunno wat stops the government from going on mass solar power projects instead of depending on petroleum or dams...

i must commend northern europeans for their effort,esp netherland

Look at that

I hate this country.

Seun lalasticlala fp please.

Teempakguy:
Look at that

I hate this country.

I don't hate the country...but I Hate the country's allergy to Development.

Some folks up there are happy the way the country is, cuz they're making profit!

RobinHez:
I don't hate the country...but I Hate the country's allergy to Development.

Some folks up there are happy the way the country is, cuz they're making profit!

you mean like the Oga at the top? who suddenly closed a very important thread over a flimsy excuse . . .

Nah wah oh

Teempakguy:
you mean like the Oga at the top? who suddenly closed a very important thread over a flimsy excuse . . .

Nah wah oh

I won't be surprised if I woke up 2morow to see 'Nobody' as the author of this ya post

RobinHez:
I won't be surprised if I woke up 2morow to see 'Nobody' as the author of this ya post

That would be shocking.

Teempakguy:

That would be shocking.

To u
Not to me

RobinHez:
To u

Not to me