Eurowind plans to install 2.5 GW of clean energy parks in Denmark

Danish renewables developer Eurowind Energy A/S announced today that it will set up five land-based multi-technology energy centres in Denmark over the coming years, with plans to install around 2.5 GW of clean power capacity across the sites.

All five projects will incorporate wind turbines, solar PV, batteries and power-to-X (PtX) technologies, with the X here being hydrogen production. Eurowind said that it is also working on how to make biogas and hydrogen refining become part of the parks.

The five energy centres are Energipark Aalborg, Energipark Norrkoer Enge II, Energipark Overgaard, Energipark Gasse Hede and Energipark Vollum Enge.

The Aalborg project will be launched first, according to the announcement.

Eurowind has so far completed several steps in the project evolution. It signed agreements with landowners to use the land for all five projects, and applied for permits to put wind turbines and solar farms at some of the sites.

Of the five, Energipark Overgaard already has wind turbines in operation, and Eurowind is now awaiting for approval to install a 700-hectare-plus (1,730 acres) solar farm there.

“Solar PV and wind turbines will always be the starting point for us. They produce the green power that is used in the other parts of the energy center. That part is in place,” said Eurowind CEO Jens Rasmussen.

“We are also working with battery technology, because this way we can provide balance services to the electricity grid. […] We also count on electrolysis as part of all our energy centers and our medium-sized energy parks. We are relatively advanced in the work with PtX as a natural part of a park, Rasmussen added.

Eurowind has built several hybrid solar-plus-wind installations in Denmark. The company said that it is now drafting plans to upgrade the hybrids to energy centres in a few years.

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