Context: Recently, Denmark has approved plans to construct an artificial island in the North Sea and use it as clean energy hub.

• Denmark wants to become the first country in the world to begin working on such energy islands.
• It aims to increase its offshore wind energy capacity by over 25-fold by the year 2050.

About Artificial Energy Island

• The island will serve as a hub for electricity generation from surrounding offshore wind farms.
• It will have a total capacity of about 5 GW offshore winds and construction is expected to be completed by 2030.
• It will supply clean power to homes and green hydrogen for use in shipping, aviation, industry, and heavy transport.
• An energy island is based on a platform that serves as a hub for electricity generation from surrounding offshore wind farms.
• One of these islands will be located in the North Sea and the second island, called the island of Bornholm, will be located in the Baltic Sea.
• The artificial island will be located about 80 km into the North Sea and the majority of it will be owned by the Danish government.

Significance of Artificial Energy Island

• It will be able to store and produce enough green energy to cover the electricity requirements of over 3 million households in the European Union (EU).
• The project will export power to mainland Denmark and neighbouring countries.
• The idea of the project is to connect and distribute power between Denmark and neighbouring countries.