Denmark’s green energy future is built on offshore wind

Twenty years since it built its first offshore wind park, Denmark believes they are key to achieving a future free of fossil fuels.

“There is a lot of wind here, and the shallow waters off the Danish coast mean it is not so expensive to build at sea here, as it is in other places,” said Steen Gade, a Socialistisk Folkeparti MP who chairs parliament’s Climate and Energy Committee.

“We have good prospects for producing a very high degree of windmill-generated electricity for Denmark and also the rest of Europe, in the long run,” he told Xinhua.

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