Denmark approved the plan of the European Union (EU) of building the world’s first man-made energy island in the North Sea. The artificial island is also known as an energy island. The energy island will collect energy from at least 200 offshore wind turbines, and it would be surrounded by turbines. The energy island can produce and provide electricity to around 3 million European households, but the island’s construction is outstretched in some stages and the reach of electricity will be extended to 10 million households. In the initial stage, the size of the island will be equivalent to nearly 18 football fields.
The supply of electricity will not remain only to household, it will go on as green hydrogen for use in aviation, industry, heavy transport, and shipping. The island will be ready by 2030 and it will have the potential capacity of 10 billion watts/ 10 GIGA watts and there is a strategy of the European Commission to increase the potential capacity to the range of 300 GIGA watts by 2050. The energy hub will also manufacture fuel. The owner of the Island will be in the partnership of the Danish state and private companies.
The Energy island will be 50 miles from the west coast of the Jutland peninsula. By the time, Denmark is planning to build the second wind energy hub with the potential capacity of 2 GW by the year 2030. Denmark is currently the largest oil producer in European Union (EU), and Denmark stated that it will cut off the production of fuel by the year 2050, and the country also blocks all new oil and gas analyses in the North Sea.
“This is truly a great moment for the global green transition and Denmark,” said Danish Energy Minister Dan Jorgensen. The cost that is going to occur in building the Energy Hub is around $33.9 billion that is 210 billion Danish kroner. It is an important part of Denmark as it is Denmark’s legally binding target to eliminate the greenhouse gas release by 70% by the year 2030.
