
Our future energy supply faces numerous challenges and has become subject to unstable international conditions. To meet these challenges off shore wind has a key role to play. Off shore windpower can contribute signifi cantly to achieving the EU goals of a 21 per cent share of renewable electricity by 2010, halting global warming and reducing our dependence on coal, oil and gas. We have come a long way since the 1980s, when most electricity production was based on coal and when the acidifi cation of forests and lakes by acid rain was the predominant theme in the environmental debate. Today wind power provides 20% of Danish electricity consumption. Within a few years, the wind power industry has grown to become a signifi cant industrial sector providing huge benefi ts for exports and employment. We are now talking about windpower generation plants rather than single turbines, and the Danish wind power industry is at the leading edge in an ever more competitive global market. In the energy strategy for 2025 the Government expects to see a signifi cant increase in the use of renewable energy in the years to come. Th e market-based expansion of this sector will be brought about through incentive schemes and investment in physical infrastructure as well as research-, development- and demonstration. With higher oil prices and high CO2 allowance prices we expect that a signifi cant proportion of the renewable energy expansion will be delivered by large, off shore wind farms. At sea, wind resources are better and suitable sites are more readily available to enable these large projects to operate in harmony with the surrounding environment. We are therefore very pleased that the Danish environmental monitoring programme on large scale off shore wind power has received a positive evaluation by the International Advisory Panel of Experts on Marine Ecology. To sustain public acceptance and provide continued protection to vulnerable coastal and marine habitats, it is important to build upon the positive experience gained so far with the use of marine spatial planning instruments...........
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