Avedøre Holme Offshore Wind Farm
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Avedøre Holme Offshore Wind Farm is a nearshore
wind farm A wind farm, also called a wind park or wind power plant, is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity. Wind farms vary in size from a small number of turbines to several hundred wind turbines covering an exten ...
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.Spliid, Iben B
Data on operating and decommissioned wind turbines (as at end of September 2010)
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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
'' EWEA''. 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 station at Avedøre Power Station supplied by Ørsted's two turbines.


See also

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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 Danish manufacturers such as Vestasthe world's largest wind-turbine manufactureralo ...
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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 primaril ...
* Avedøre Power Station


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Wind farms in Denmark Ørsted (company) wind farms Energy infrastructure completed in 2009 2009 establishments in Denmark {{Wind-farm-stub