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Summary
The story of Esbjerg’s evolution from Europe’s biggest fishing port, to Denmark’s oil and gas hub, to now being the world’s leading offshore wind port and future power-to-X hot spot, is a case study in the energy transition in action.
Enlit on the Road visited Denmark’s energy metropolis, on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula, to explore its remarkable, and constant transformation. What we found was a city that lives and breathes energy; and a municipality focused on leading Denmark’s energy transition.
A state-of-the-art district heating system, hyper scale data centres, carbon capture and energy storage solutions are all part of the future-focused city that is “turning the North Sea into a green power plant for Europe.”
“Meta is planning to build quite an impressive hyper scale data centre in our city. I think Denmark is attractive because we have very stable power support – 99.9999% uptime – and that’s very important for that industry. We have a very well organized district heating system where we can reuse the exit excess heat from data centres and also from power-to-x companies in the future.”
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