COPENHAGEN, Jan 27: Denmark has agreed with Germany to jointly develop major offshore wind energy project Bornholm Energy Island, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced.
“It is a cross-border project that integrates the European energy market. It delivers green electricity to German households and Danish households and our companies,” Frederiksen said at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever during the North Sea Summit in Hamburg.
She added that this was the first project of its kind.
Germany and Denmark also signed an agreement to establish and operate a joint energy hub on the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea at the North Sea Summit, DPA reported.
It is noted that the island is planned to be used as a hub for transmitting electricity from offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea to Germany and Denmark. As part of the project, the two countries agreed to share the costs of constructing and maintaining the necessary equipment.
Furthermore, DPA reported that the energy ministers of Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Iceland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom, present at the summit, signed an agreement to develop wind energy in the region. It is planned to invest approximately 9.5 billion euros in the industry by 2030.
(UNI)
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