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were installed on Lynetten. Both projects came into being through
a successful cooperation between local windmill cooperatives and
the power utility.
Figure 14.1
Middelgrunden wind farm (40 MW) (Photo: Kim Hansen).
Conflicts of interests created problems to locate new sites
for wind turbines in the capital area, therefore interest centred
on areas at the sea. The mapping of the ministry pointed to
Middelgrunden as a possible site, but the area had low priority
among power utilities and civil servants. The wind power coopera-
tive was formed, and with the approval of the Danish parliament,
the Danish Energy Agency granted funding for the pilot study.
At first, some rivalry with Copenhagen Lighting Company arose,
but Middelgrunden Cooperative was soon established in order to
develop further the project.
14.2 
Middelgrunden Offshore Wind Farm
Before the project could be authorised many problems had to
be solved. The situation just outside the capital of Copenhagen
caused a heavy debate. The humour column “At Tænke Sig” in the
daily
carried an advertisement for Middelgrunden Wind
Farm: “Ofered: Resistance to wind. Wanted: Wind resistance.”
A turning point was reached when an overwhelming majority
of representatives of Danish Society for Nature Conservation
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