Solar power in Denmark

[2][3] Solar power produced 9.3% of Danish electricity generation in 2023, the highest share in the Nordic countries.

[18] In 2016, a German solar power auction was won by a set of projects with a combined capacity of 50 MW at a price of 5.38 eurocent/kWh, which is unusually low for Northern Europe.

This twentyfold increase in photovoltaic capacity in only one year urged the Danish government to cut back its net-metering scheme.

In December 2012, Danish parliament reduced the compensation period of net-metering from a yearly to an hourly bases and increased in turn the granted feed-in tariffs.

This change in policy intended to reduce the overall attractiveness of further PV deployment while keeping up some incentives for small developments.

The storage, which is covered with a layer of insulation, enables solar heat collected primarily in summer to be used year-round.

"[37] The expansion of the Marstal facility, completed in 2013, was part of the European Union's SunStore4 project, and can serve as a basic model for such heating plants elsewhere in Europe if local conditions are also taken into account.

A second expansion is planned, to provide 50% of the heat demand from a total solar collector area of 50,000 square metres and using an enlarged BTES store.