Avedøre Holme Offshore Wind Farm is a nearshore
wind farm
A wind farm or wind park, also called a wind power station or wind power plant, is a group of wind turbines in the same location used Wind power, to produce electricity. Wind farms vary in size from a small number of turbines to several hundre ...
right off the coast of
Avedøre
Avedøre is a south-western suburb of Copenhagen located in Hvidovre Municipality.
Description
The city is mostly made up of concrete blocks and row-housing, but some people residing in Avedøre live in detached single-family houses with gardens. ...
, Copenhagen. It was commissioned in 2009 with three 3.6 MW Siemens turbines as a demonstrator project for future offshore wind turbines.
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Data on operating and decommissioned wind turbines (as at end of September 2010)
(.xls spreadsheet) ''Danish Energy Agency The Danish Energy Agency (Danish: Energistyrelsen) was established in 1976 as an agency of the Danish Ministry of Transport. It was part of the Ministry of Environment and Energy from 1994 to 2001. In 2007 it came under the newly created Danish Mini ...
'', 18 October 2010
Main page
Retrieved: 25 October 2010.[Operational offshore wind farms in Europe, end 2009](_blank)
''EWEA
WindEurope is an association promoting the use of wind power in Europe. Based in Brussels it has over 600 members, which are active in over 50 countries, including manufacturers with a leading share of the world wind power market, component suppli ...
''. Retrieved: 23 October 2010.[Christensen, Allan S. & Madsen, Morten]
Supply Chain study on the Danish offshore wind industry
page 33-42 ''Offshore Center Denmark'', 29. august 2005. Retrieved: 23 October 2010. Ørsted owns two turbines, and a private collective owns the third.
[ Ørsted and partners build a 2MW ]hydrogen electrolysis
Electrolysis of water, also known as electrochemical water splitting, is the process of using electricity to decompose water into oxygen and hydrogen gas by electrolysis. Hydrogen gas released in this way can be used as hydrogen fuel, or remi ...
station at Avedøre Power Station
The Avedøre Power Station ( da, Avedøreværket) is a combined heat and power station, located in Avedøre, Denmark, just south of Copenhagen, and is owned by Ørsted A/S. Avedøre Power Plant is a high-technology facility and one of the world's ...
supplied by Ørsted's two turbines.
See also
*Wind power in Denmark
Denmark was a pioneer in developing commercial wind power during the 1970s, and today a substantial share of the wind turbines around the world are produced by List of wind turbine manufacturers, Danish manufacturers such as Vestas—the world's ...
*List of offshore wind farms in Denmark
This is a list of operational, offshore wind farms in Denmark (within the national maritime boundaries). Denmark's wind power generation is the highest in the world as a fraction of domestic consumption, reaching 47% in 2019.
Data is primarily ...
*Avedøre Power Station
The Avedøre Power Station ( da, Avedøreværket) is a combined heat and power station, located in Avedøre, Denmark, just south of Copenhagen, and is owned by Ørsted A/S. Avedøre Power Plant is a high-technology facility and one of the world's ...
References
Wind farms in Denmark
Ørsted (company) wind farms
Energy infrastructure completed in 2009
2009 establishments in Denmark
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