Resource Library Category: Denmark
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Documents presented here are not the product of nor are they necessarily endorsed by National Wind Watch. This resource library is provided to assist anyone wishing to research the issue of industrial wind power and the impacts of its development. The information should be evaluated by each reader to come to their own conclusions about the many areas of debate.
Wind Power in Denmark
Author: Mason, Vic
About a fifth of the electricity produced annually in Denmark is generated by wind. Of this, just over a half can be used directly within national borders over the year. The rest must be exported (often at much reduced prices) to preserve the integrity of domestic grids.
The need to backup the variable supply of wind power with electricity from combined heat and power plants for internal use, and the necessity to export large surpluses of wind power, means that domestic . . .
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Wind turbine breaks up in storm
Author: teamwrp (You Tube)
Dramatic footage (also available here).
Government disregard for wind turbine noise and health problems
Author: Davis, Jane and Julian; Arp, Jyette; and Nilsson, Lotta
A Christmas update from the Davises of Deeping St Nicholas about the wind turbine noise that drove them from their home, followed by a 1994 letter from Denmark and a 2001 letter from Sweden (thanks to Angela Kelly of Country Guardian in the U.K.) showing that nothing has changed. Noise, and flicker, remains a serious problem (how could a 90-meter-across propeller with a blade assembly weighing 40 tons be otherwise), and it is still officially ignored.
From Deeping St Nicholas, England, . . .
Industrial wind: a failure written in the European statistics
Author: Fédération Environnement Durable
[from "Eolien industriel: un échec en filigrane dans les statistiques Européennes"]
Does large-scale development of industrial wind energy actually reduce the consumption of fossil fuels or emission of CO2?
Comparison of per-capita wind and thermal electricity production and CO2 emissions in Germany, Denmark, Spain, and France.
Germany — most industrial wind facilities in the world (18,400 MW in 2005) –
2005: 10.6 tonnes CO2 per capita, 6.4 tonnes from electricity
+190% per capita production from wind from 2000 to 2005
+9% per capita thermal electricity production from . . .
Analysis of Wind Power in the Danish Electricity Supply in 2005 and 2006
Author: Mason, Vic
Summary:
It is often said that wind power covers c. 20% of Danish electricity consumption. It is more correct to say that the production of power by Danish wind turbines corresponds to about 20% of electricity demand. A considerable part of the wind energy produced is exported to neighboring countries and thus does not cover any part of Danish electricity consumption.
Now, the question is how can one know that it is wind energy and not coal-electricity which is exported? In the . . .
Analysis of Wind Power in the Danish Electricity Supply 2005-2006
Author: Reel Energi Oplysning
This study is in Danish, but even without Danish the graphs are clear, showing a strong correlation between wind energy production and export of electricity. Thus the evidence shows that wind provides very little of Denmark’s electricity. When the wind blows, the extra power is exported.
Download “Analyse af Vindkraft i Dansk Elforsyning 2005 og 2006″
The English translation is now available: click here.
Danish electricity consumption vs. wind production
Author: Bruce, Dave
First 4 weeks of 2006.
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Danish Energy Flows 2003
Author: Danish Energy Authority
Although Denmark is an electricity exporter, it is even more an importer. According to this Energy Flows chart, they imported 242 PJ of oil for electricity generation (producing about 82 PJ) and 25 PJ of electricity itself. They exported 56 PJ of electricity, a number suspiciously close to the 63 PJ of electricity production from renewables (mostly from wind, presumably).
(A petajoule [PJ] is equivalent to about 278,000 gigawatt-hours of electrical energy.)
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Danish Electricity Generation by Fuel, 1971-2003
Author: International Energy Association (IEA)
Note that 1996 was a peak year for electricity generation and renewables were not largely used. Total electricity generation declined to a low in 2000 and has been rising again since,
Coal replaced oil from the 1970s through the 1980s, but the 1990s saw oil increasing again, along with natural gas. Since 2000, both have declined slightly, with coal making up more than the difference. Since 2000, the share of renewables in Denmark’s generation has actually declined. (Since 2004, no new . . .
Wind power in West Denmark. Lessons for the UK
Author: Mason, Vic
Revised October 2005
“It is high time that our politicians and “˜green’ organisations were asked to justify their support for the massive economic outlay and potentially horrific environmental impact associated with wind technology in its present form …”
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