The CO2 load from electricity has fallen 75 percent in 10 years
Preliminary figures from Green Power Denmark show that the average CO2 emissions per kilowatt-hour consumed last year amounted to 96 grams of CO2. That’s only a quarter of the average emissions in 2013, which amounted to 363 grams. According to Kristian Jensen, CEO of Green Power Denmark, the figures prove that the green transition has moved. “This is because a lot of new solar cells were installed at the end of 2022 and the first half of last year. Unfortunately, the same was not true for the wind turbines,” he says. At the same time as the expansion of renewable energy, we also imported a lot of green power from our neighbouring countries. It also pulls the CO2 load in the right direction.
Kristian Jensen hopes that the development can continue in the coming years. “An additional 350 megawatts of offshore wind will be connected to the grid in the coming weeks, increasing the current wind capacity by 15 percent. And we have just inaugurated an electricity connection to the UK that makes it possible to both sell and buy green power in this way. But our challenge is that even though there will be more solar parks and wind turbines, there will also be more electric cars on the roads, and there are more district heating companies that use heat pumps instead of gas boilers,” he said and added: “So we must constantly produce even more green power to be able to keep pushing the number down”.