COPEHAGEN: Denmark’s current largest, will be put out to tender in 2021 and built between 2024 and 2027. The government has yet to decide on where the farm will be based.
The government’s long-term climate target is that Denmark must be a low-emission society by 2050 which does not emit greenhouse gases and is completely independent of fossil fuels such as coal, gas and oil,” Energy Minister Lars Christian Lilleholt said in a press release.
Danish Energy, the country’s trade body for energy companies welcomed the plan.
The proposal marks a new departure, where the green goes up, but the electricity bill goes down,” the body’s chief executive Lars Aagaard said in a press release.
His main criticism was that the government had failed to emphasise transport sufficiently.
“If we want to we achieve our long-term climate ambitions and targets for energy efficiency, we need to consider cars powered by electricity rather than fossil fuels,” he said, pointing out that an electric car is three times as energy efficient.
