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The environment When approving the project in principle in 1999, the Danish Energy Agency stipulated that an environmental impact assessment report, a so-called EIA report, be prepared. The natural surroundings at Blåvands Huk and along the west coast of Jutland in general are, without a doubt, impressive and unique. So any project which would erect a technical construction in these surroundings would be subject to close scrutiny. The environment at Horns Rev was studied from February 1999 to May 2000. |
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The project’s initiators put extensive studies of the marine fauna indigenous to the area into motion. These descriptions were then collated with the technical installations, that is, the offshore wind farm, the transformer substation and the placement of the submarine cable leading onshore. The environmental studies did not turn up any special conditions which would preclude the construction of this demonstration offshore wind farm at Horns Rev. Thus, the builders received environmental approval in the spring of 2001. The environmental monitoring programme Elsam has teamed up with Danish experts who specialise in these fields. They are the backbone of a substantial environmental monitoring programme designed to shed light on the range of environmental considerations which, in one way or another, are unique to the Wadden Sea or to Horns Rev. Together with technical and financial evaluations of the project, the studies which are a part of this programme will constitute the pieces of the puzzle that will be determinant factors in whether or not Denmark decides to continue with the development of offshore wind energy projects at Horns Rev and in Danish waters in general. Visibility |