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A Reporter at Large: The Island in the Wind : The New Yorker
ABSTRACT: A REPORTER AT LARGE about a Danish community’s shift to renewable energy. Jørgen Tranberg is a farmer who lives on the Danish island of Samsø. Samsø, which is roughly the size of Nantucket, sits in the Kattegat, an arm of the North Sea. It has twenty-two villages and, for the past dozen years or so, it’s been the site of an unlikely social movement. In the late nineteen-nineties, most of the island’s forty-three hundred inhabitants were heating their houses with oil and used electricity imported from the mainland via cable, much of which was generated by burning coal. As a result, each Samsinger put into the atmosphere, on average, nearly eleven tons of carbon dioxide annually.
Wind power in Denmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Denmark was a pioneer in developing commercial wind power during the 1970s, and today almost half of the wind turbines around the world are produced by Danish manufacturers such as Vestas and Siemens Wind Power along with many component suppliers. [ 1 ] Wind power provided 18.9% of electricity production and 24.1% of generation capacity in Denmark in 2008. [ 2 ] In 2012 the Danish government adopted a plan to increase the share of electricity production from wind to 50% by 2020. [ 3 ] [ edit ] History As concerns over global warming grew in the 1980s, Denmark found itself with relatively high carbon dioxide emissions per capita, primarily due to the coal-fired electrical power plants that had become the norm after the 1973 and 1979 energy crises of the 1970s. [ 4 ] Renewable energy became the natural choice for Denmark, decreasing both dependence on other countries for energy and global warming pollution.
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