THE race for wind-power supremacy in the North Sea has taken a further step with DONG Energy of Denmark submitting a binding tender to the Danish Energy Agency for the concession to build a 400-megawatt offshore windfarm off the Danish island of Anholt, in the Kattegat.
If the concession is awarded to DONG Energy, the total investment is expected to come in around £1billion. The Anholt project is regarded as an important milestone in the expansion of renewable energy production in Denmark.
When complete, this project is expected to supply its first power in 2012 and to be finally completed in 2013.
The windfarm will be able to supply CO-free power corresponding to the annual power consumption of 400,000 Danish households, or 4% of Denmark’s total power consumption.
In 2009, DONG Energy built what is currently ranked as the world’s largest windfarm, Horns Rev II, which has a capacity of 209MW and is situated in the Danish sector of the North Sea.
DONG is currently building two offshore windfarms in the UK and is the operator of several windfarms in northern Europe.
The Danish energy group claims to have built half of the largest offshore windfarms in the world and is reckoned to be neck and neck with Vattenfall, of Sweden, which also has considerable UK ambitions and is the lead partner in the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre project proposed for a location off the Aberdeenshire coast – to the north of Aberdeen city.
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