Danes may delay offshore wind projects to fund solar boom

The Danish government has proposed delaying by at least a year the planned connection schedules of the Horns Rev 3 and Krieger’s Flak offshore wind projects to conserve money for the country’s unexpected PV boom.

The Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Building is pushing the proposal as part of a wider rethink on solar energy in Denmark.

Only a few years ago Denmark, a champion of renewables and home of wind-energy giant Vestas, anticipated having a meagre 6MW of installed PV capacity in 2020, according to the Renewables Action Plan it submitted to the European Commission.

To the surprise of many, however, cloudy Denmark has over the past year stormed past the grid-parity threshold for residential PV systems as a result of the Log in to read complete article.

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