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Offshore wind farms
The Danish government has introduced several action plans with the goal of reducing the annual
emissions of CO2 to half of 1998 levels by 2030. In order to help achieve this the amount of
energy produced from renewable energy sources, including offshore wind farms, is to be increased.
The government's Energy Plan 21 states that 5500 MW of wind power is to be established in Denmark
by 2030, of which 4000 MW is to be located offshore in the form of large wind farms.
The Ministry of the Environment and Energy has issued Energi E2 and SEAS a commission to erect wind
farms at Rødsand (south of Lolland). The projection, establishment and commissioning of these wind
farms are planned to take place in the period 2000 to 2005.
An EIA study was carried out in 2000
(www.seas.dk) following the guidelines jointly drawn up by
the Danish Energy Agency and the National Forest and Nature Agency.
Part of this task is to assess the extent to which the erection of wind farms in this area will
cause measurable, temporary and permanent, changes in the local population of the harbour seal
(Phoca vitulina) and the grey seal (Haliocerus grypus). The EIA dealing with the effect relative
to the local seal population was carried out by Dietz et al. (2000).
NERI (DMU) has also conducted a pilot study on the use of satellite telemetry as a tool to
investigate potential effect on the seal population on Rødsand from future erection and operation
of windmill farms. The results of this work is dealt with in Dietz et al. (2001).
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