Electricity
The electricity sector relies on fossil energy and renewable energy: wind power, biogas, biomass and waste. The average consumption of electricity per person was 0.8 GWh less than EU 15 average in 2008. Denmark invested in the wind power development in the 1970s and has been the top wind power country of the world ever since. Danish consumption of wind electricity has been highest in the world per person: 1,218 kWh in 2009. Denmark produced more wind power per person in 2009 than Spain or the UK produced nuclear power.
Because of energy taxes, Denmark has the highest household electricity prices in the world, while industries pay just below EU average.
Read more about this topic: Energy In Denmark
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“Prudence and justice tell me that in electricity and steam there is more love for man than in chastity and abstinence from meat.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)