Subject: Danish off-shore wind farms

From: [email-masked] (Steen H Hviid)
Date: 29 May 1995 02:51:44 GMT

I just read the front page of the Danish magazine "Ingenioren" (The Danish
Engineering Weekly), dated May 12., 1995.

The ministry of ecology and the ministry of energy, have come out with a
report about off-shore wind-parks. They suggest four locations, with room
for a total of 7000 windmills, each capable of producing 1 MW. They expect
the to be about $2500 -  $2600 per installed kW capacity, whicvh should
produce electricity for around 10 cents/kWh.

They mention that experience with the only existing off-shore wind-park
(11 mills, each 450 kW) shows that off-shore installations will have
production prices comparable to poor landbased locations. The draw of the
off-shore sites is then primarily lack of sufficinet locations on-shore.
The prices for good on-shore locations are now comparable to those produced
by the convetional coal-based power plants in the country. (note that Danish
environmental standards, and fuel taxes, are higher than most other countries).

-- 
Steen Hansen (Hviid)    E-mail: [email-masked]
Computer Specialist,    The Ohio State University
There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the earth as if it was 
a business in liquidation.  -- Herman Daly, quoted in "Earth in the Balance"