Wind turbines in Denmark reached record level in 2014

Scotland does pretty well with regards to renewables with ~49.8% of energy consumption sourced from renewable sources (17.1k GWh wind&#x2F;hydro out of 19k GWh total renewables).<p>This puts wind and hydro at around 42%.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scottishrenewables.com&#x2F;sectors&#x2F;renewables-in-numbers&#x2F;#chart5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scottishrenewables.com&#x2F;sectors&#x2F;renewables-in-num...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.scot&#x2F;Resource&#x2F;0048&#x2F;00480365.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.scot&#x2F;Resource&#x2F;0048&#x2F;00480365.pdf</a>

Extensive plots for Germany for comparison:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ise.fraunhofer.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;downloads-englisch&#x2F;pdf-files-englisch&#x2F;data-nivc-&#x2F;electricity-production-from-solar-and-wind-in-germany-2014.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ise.fraunhofer.de&#x2F;en&#x2F;downloads-englisch&#x2F;pdf-files...</a>

The big problem with this is oversupply of the grid. While Denmark has the ability to export to Norway, Sweden and Germany (amongst others) it&#x27;s likely wind production will be at high levels in neighbouring countries. Germany often has a huge oversupply of energy, with electricity prices turning negative.

And what&#x27;s the average price for kwh in Denmark?

The text doesn&#x27;t mention it, and it often is implied in these kinds of reports that this only is about domestic electricity use, so: does that include industrial use?<p>If not, what percentage of total electricity use are we talking about?<p>If or if not, what percentage of total power use are we talking about?

I&#x27;m no electrical engineer (could be doing the math wrong), but I think there is a pretty glaring error in this page:<p>The author mentions a 400 MW wind farm, and then says that correlates to 400,000 homes. Unless homes in Denmark use only 3% of what homes in the US use on average[1], that number should be somewhere closer to 15,000 homes.<p>1. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;tools&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;faq.cfm?id=97&amp;t=3" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eia.gov&#x2F;tools&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;faq.cfm?id=97&amp;t=3</a>

<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pennenergy.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;pennenergy&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;renewable-energy-renewables-generate-84-percent-of-uruguay-s-energy.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pennenergy.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;pennenergy&#x2F;2014&#x2F;06&#x2F;renewa...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.vice.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;an-energy-revolution-is-underway-in-uruguay" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.vice.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;an-energy-revolution-is-underw...</a>

In 2014 63% of Portugal&#x27;s electricity needs were supplied by renewable sources <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Renewable_energy_in_Portugal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Renewable_energy_in_Portugal</a>

But how much of this was overlapping power production with baseline fossil fuel production? Wind power often doesn&#x27;t displace fossil fuels, it coincides with it, since wind is less predictable and coal plants take hours to ramp up&#x2F;down.<p>If 39% of Danes&#x27; electricity completely displaced the same amount of fossil fuels, my jaw would hit the floor.

And the cost of electricity in Denmark is the highest in Europe:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:Electricity-prices-europe.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;File:Electricity-prices-europe...</a>