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other ten by the local utility. The wind farm now delivers more
than 3% of the electricity used in the Danish capital.
In 2002-2003, two big ofshore wind parks were built by
Danish utilities. They were the first of five planned ofshore wind
parks that ensured the further development towards the long-
term target in the 1996 energy plan. The first one was placed
at Horns Rev at the North Sea and had 80 Vestas 2 MW turbines.
The following year, a wind park of similar size with 72 Bonus
2.3 MW turbines was built in the Baltic Sea. Also in 2003, an ofshore
wind park with 10 Bonus 2.3 MW turbines was established on
the island Samsø, which in 1998 was nominated as the “Danish
Renewable Energy Island”, made self-sufficient with energy.
Figure 3.40
Middelgrunden ofshore wind park by Copenhagen was
established in 2000 and was at that time the world's biggest
ofshore installation (Photo: Siemens Wind Power) (left);
Installation of one of the eighty 2 MW Vestas wind turbines
in the Horns Rev ofshore wind farm in 2002 (Photo: Jan
Vium Nielsen, DVS) (right).
3.20
Political Changes, and Changes of Mind:
2001-2011
These projects placed the Danish wind turbine industry and
utilities in the forefront of the promising ofshore market. But a
sudden break in the development occurred after a change of the
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