The Danish authorities has postponed the launch of a young to determine a North Sea vitality island venture resulting from excessive prices, the nation’s ministry of vitality stated on Wednesday.
The venture included the development of a synthetic island within the North Sea that may function a hub to collect and distribute energy generated by surrounding offshore wind generators.
The authorities will think about various choices with a view to reduce prices, the Danish ministry stated.
Denmark authorised the plan to construct the world’s first vitality island in early February 2021, which it stated might produce and retailer sufficient inexperienced vitality to cowl the electrical energy wants of three million European households.
The ministry of vitality and the Danish vitality authority have since developed the preliminary idea and now estimate that the federal government’s price for the venture would quantity to greater than 50 billion Danish crowns ($7.35 billion).
“The project is thus far from being profitable, which is a clear condition for the project in the political agreements,” the vitality ministry stated in its assertion.
The authorities added that it stays dedicated to the development of the vitality island, however stated it was essential to discover options that would make the venture viable in mild of present financial issues.
The resolution on the right way to push the venture ahead and the publishing of the tender paperwork will probably be postponed till later this 12 months, the ministry stated.
($1 = 6.8013 Danish crowns)
(Reuters – Reporting by Louise Breusch Rasmussen; Editing by Terje Solsvik and Jan Harvey)