Over half of Denmark's domestic electricity supply from renewables: report

Renewable energy has covered a record level of more than half of Denmark's electricity consumption in 2015, partly thanks to higher wind power generation, an energy report said on Thursday.

Electricity from renewables accounted for 56 percent of Danish domestic electricity supply in 2015, with the largest contribution coming from wind power at 41.8 percent and biomass at 11 percent, according to the Energy Statistics 2015 released by the Danish Energy Agency (DEA).

DEA said higher electricity imports and a much higher wind power generation led to a large drop in consumption of coal and other fossil fuels at power plants.

As a result, the observed CO2 emissions from energy consumption fell by 6.6 percent in 2015 to 35.2 million tonnes.

The report also showed that the Danish degree of self-sufficiency for energy was 89 percent in 2015, meaning that Denmark's own energy production was 11 percent less than energy consumption. Endit