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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Denmark: An Energy Transformation in the Making? Wind Power on the Inside of the System
Author : Espen Moe
Published in: Renewable Energy Transformation or Fossil Fuel Backlash
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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This book analyzes six different countries in six chapters. Thus, countries can be compared to each other, but the chapters can also be read as standalone case studies. One of the more obvious comparisons that can, however, be made is between Denmark and Norway. They are both Scandinavian countries, they are small compared to the other four countries in the book — each inhabiting only a little over five million people — but technologically and economically highly sophisticated, and they are politically fairly similar. In terms of energy policy, they have, however, gone their very separate ways. Some of this is for obvious reasons. Denmark is one of the flattest countries around and does not have much hydropower potential, and it does not have the same abundance of petroleum as Norway. It does hold some petroleum reserves, but these were discovered late and are of a magnitude that allows Denmark to be self-sufficient, but not a major exporter.1