Wind power in Denmark

After the world's oil crises in the 1970s, Denmark started to develop wind power. In 1988, two years after the Chernobyl disaster, the Danes passed a law forbidding the construction of nuclear power plants.Caldicott, 2006, pp.168-169

The Danes were pioneers in developing commercial wind power during the 1970s and today almost half of the wind turbines around the world are produced by Danish manufacturers such as Vestas.

Wind power in Denmark provided 30% of the electricity produced in Denmark in 2012,International Energy Agency (2013). IEA Wind Energy: Annual Report 2012  p. 5. and cumulative installed capacity over recent years is shown in the Table below.

Wind turbines are popular with people in Denmark.

 Year Installed Wind Capacity (MW) 2001 2,489 2002 2,889 2003 3,116 2004 3,118 2005 3,122 2006 3,136
Sources: Global Wind 2005 Report, p.7  Global Wind 2006 Report, p.9 

Related pages
 List of wind turbine manufacturers
 Renewable energy
 Renewable resource
 Wind
 Wind farm
 Wind power in Germany
 Wind power in Spain

References

Books
 Caldicott, Helen (2006). Nuclear power is not the answer to global warming or anything else, Melbourne University Press, 
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