FILE PHOTO: Middelgrunden offshore wind farm is pictured outside Copenhagen, Denmark November 27, 2019. Picture taken November 27, 2019. REUTERS/Andreas Mortensen
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's government on Wednesday proposed more than tripling its offshore wind capacity by building two energy islands linked to new wind farms in the Baltic and North seas to help meet ambitious climate change targets.
One of the two hubs, which would be the world's first, will be located on the Danish Baltic island of Bornholm and the other on an artificial island in the North Sea. Each will have a capacity of at least 2 GW, enough to power four million of Denmark's 5.8 million homes.
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