Denmark worried about future energy supply, but continues the “energy transition” – Document
The Danish Energy Agency has just released one report which shows that even Denmark’s power supply security will not be a foregone conclusion in 2030. In 2030 and beyond, Denmark will have many power stations that can step in on days when power consumption is high and production from wind and solar power is low – something that would like to include freezing weeks with polar high pressure in the winter months. These are new alarm bells that are chiming due to today’s power shortage, which has surprised the authorities, despite countless warnings.
Nordmen’s relationship with Denmark as a holiday country has probably contributed to Denmark being used as proof that society can be based on wind power and bicycles, but this is a figment of the imagination: Until 2015, Denmark was primarily powered by its 14 coal/oil power plants, as well as transmission cables . from a neighboring country. It worked perfectly and reasonably, and until now Denmark has been able to produce a production/consumption balance regardless of weather, wind or power demand by balancing own production against transfers from neighboring countries. Well, it can be over.
A high-risk energy experiment driven by enormous profit potential
Unfortunately, Danish politicians are intoxicated with the same “green shift” that is ravaging the rest of the EU and the Nordics: Coal power plants are being shut down, and as compensation, Denmark has built 6,200 wind turbines. The remaining eight “adjustable power stations” (coal/oil power plants) are also due to be phased out, and at the same time power consumption from transport, heating and industry is increasing because society must be “electrified”.
This electrification must be done through a future «smartgrid», where power from «renewables» must be pushed here and there, or produce hydrogen for windless weeks. This system is Science Fiction: It has never been tested in practice over a longer period of time for a larger society, and nowhere will you find estimates for the costs up to 2050. Just as the “changeover” is underway across the Nordics and the EU, before one has struck sure that this will really work, what it will deliver in practice and what it will cost to build and what the electricity will cost to consumers.
It is the climate crisis and its alleged catastrophic results in the future that create this panic policy. The new energy system based on wind, solar, hydrogen, batteries and transmission cables MUST be built and MUST be forced to work so the entire Nordic region will be carbon-free in 2030 and fossil-free in 2050. But it’s not going to work. It will just create a bigger and bigger energy shortage in EU countries, at ever higher prices, which of course pleases the electricity profiteers, but ruins both people and businesses.
Danish politicians are also starting to get nervous
Fifteen years of a historic effort on wind power development in Germany proves that the “energy transition” is not working. But neither does the market director of Dansk Energi, Kamilla Thingvad, take the hint and warns the politicians that “The Green Letter” is about to create a disaster. Unfortunately, she also believes that the only solution is to force the “green transition” and build even more wind turbines, as the wind barons dictate from their tax havens. There can never be enough, or too many wind turbines, despite the fact that everyone is now aware that wind power can stand still for weeks during the winter months, when the need for power is greatest. Thingvad says:
– A high security of electricity supply and low electricity prices are prerequisites for a well-functioning and competitive Denmark. The importance of the two prerequisites only increases as Denmark undergoes increased electrification and digitization. Therefore, we must prioritize areas of action: Sufficient wind and solar capacity must be built to keep Danes’ electricity prices down, and investments must be made in facilities and solutions that can be quickly and flexibly shut down when production from wind and solar fails.
Denmark stands out in «climate solutions» in that the Energy Agency recommends an increased investment in carbon-neutral biofuels and biomass power plants as «balancing power», when it is found to be failing or blowing too much. Then it may be that the whole “changeover” is unnecessary and wasted, because the world just set a record in the use of coal, and there is no energy shortage in the EU: the continent has enormous fossil energy reserves, but they no longer want to use them. Because climate.