COPENHAGEN: The powerful winds that hammered Denmark in the early morning hours of Friday covered the nation’s electricity use with enough left over to export to neighbouring countries, Energinet.dk said on Sunday.
Between Thursday and Friday, Danish windmills provided a full 140 percent of the nation’s electricity use, creating enough energy to cover Denmark’s needs and to export the excess to Sweden, Germany and Norway.
According to Engerinet.dk, a state-run agency that monitors consumer energy use, that’s a new national record for wind share, which is the amount of electricity use that is covered by wind energy at any given time. “It is, as far as I can tell, a new all-time record. We have previously hit 135 percent but not 140 percent,” Carsten Vittrup, an energy strategy advisor, told Ritzau on Sunday.
