Offshore windfarms – technology is progressing fast
Technology is advancing fast in offshore windfarms, and we play a key role in this development.
DONG Energy has been working on wind power for many years, but there is still extensive scope for development. Wind turbine size is being regularly enhanced, wind turbines are installed offshore, and their location is being scrutinised in order to optimise wind utilisation - factors that make more stringent demands on both turbines, foundations, access conditions, availability, operational control, management and maintenance. DONG Energy is putting a concerted effort into all these areas.
We have also found a new way of connecting the power cable that helps to achieve cost savings during the construction phase. The spate of new wind power projects in our pipeline, both in Denmark and abroad, bear witness to our strong market position.
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North Sea oil
Surveys have shown that we are among the three best companies in the North Sea in terms of keeping production costs down. We also measure our performance in terms of the drillings performed to identify and produce oil from the subsoil. In this category, we are also one of the top performers!
Simultaneously with the strong financial results, we have constantly improved the safety of our operations, retaining intensive focus on minimising any environmental impact. We continue these efforts by seeking to extract even more from the fields, and we recently announced our “2020 Vision”, aimed at initiating a number of new steps to ensure that we can continue profitable production operations at least until 2020.
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District heating world champions DONG Energy is one of the global leaders when it comes to skills in project planning, construction and operation of state-of-the-art and effective power plants. In fact, we operate some of the world’s most effective power plants.
This is the result of years of dedicated efforts to generate fossil energy that is as environmentally compatible as possible while also being financially viable. If the power plants of other countries were replaced with new ones using the technology applied by DONG Energy, the aggregate global CO2 emissions from coal-fired power plants could be reduced by approximately 30%.
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We employ many geologists and geophysicists within the offshore and wind industry. These colleagues work on our locations all over Europe. Once a year they hold an internal conference where all of our specialists within that field meet. It is a day with professional knowledge sharing, new input and technologies, not to mention the great social networking and the possibility to get to know the individual professional areas of DONG Energy much better.
Water with a temperature of more than 70 degrees has been located two or three kilometres into the Danish subsoil. This water runs through a stone layer, which was in fact a desert in prehistoric times, and which is now situated in Denmark’s subsoil!
We operate two well-functioning geothermal plants providing CO2-free contributions to the district heating for several thousand households in Thisted in North Jutland and on the island of Amager.">
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