COPENHAGEN: Denmark is nearing its 2020 goal of having 50 percent of its energy consumption covered by wind energy, according to new figures from the national transmission system operator for electricity and natural gas here the other day.
The figures showed that 39 percent of Danish energy consumption in 2014 was covered by wind energy double what it was ten years ago.
“We will definitely reach the 2020 targets,” Rasmus Helveg Petersen, the climate and energy minister, told Customs Today.
“We are setting a unique world record and it shows that we are able to reach our actual goal, which is stopping global warming.”
2014 considered a “normal wind year”, attributing the rise in production to an increase in the number of wind turbines – particularly the 111 new sea wind turbines off the coast of the island Anholt that began producing energy at the end of 2013.
