Wind power in Denmark in one day generate more electricity than the country needed Bashny.Net

July 9 this year, on Thursday, which turned out to be an unusually windy, the Danish energy system получила from wind power electricity generation such that it exceeded the required level for the whole country by 16%. During certain times of day, for example, in the early morning of Thursday, when electricity consumption is naturally dropped due to night time energy production reached figures of 140%.

If you look at the site of the main energy operator in Denmark, where the real-time in the form of vivid and attractive animations shown level of development electricity and its export, we see that the rate of development of wind power is much greater than consumption. The maximum capacity of all the wind power complex is declared at the level of 4.8 GW - in other words, he still remained a substantial reserve.




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Earlier, the authorities of the country, with a population of 5.6 million people, заявляли, in Denmark began a state program to eliminate use of fossil fuels by 2050, including not only incineration to generate electricity and for transport. This program was launched, despite the favorable geographical location of the country in relation to its energy-fortunate neighbors where Denmark can easily import electricity. For example, a large number of nuclear power plants in Sweden and hydropower from Norway allowed Denmark to feel comfortable enough. However, the political intentions of the Swedish authorities to close the nuclear power stations and the growing needs of the UK, which had to share the Norwegian energy imports forced the Danish authorities to start a program for installing wind power at home with the intention to bring their production up to half of the required level in 2020. As you can see, this government program is close to your goal.

In March this year the UK opened the country's largest coastal wind farm Keadby Wind Farm, consisting of 34 wind turbines . The total project cost was 98 million pounds, which paid a private company SSE. A little later it became известно, that the government will stop the state subsidies to wind power to April 1, 2016. The same uncertain situation with alternative energy sources observed in Germany: in spite of the declared transition to a "clean" sources of electricity, the country is actively buys coal in Russia and opens up new power plants while closing nuclear power. The latter is mainly under the pressure of the environmental community in light of the tragedy in Japan, "Fukushima-1". The main reason for a return to "traditional" energy in Germany - is "instability" of wind energy, the efficiency of which is highly dependent on the weather.

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