Denmark doesn’t have lots of uninhabited land and people don’t want to live in the shadow of wind turbines. In the late 1990s, a visionary Danish minister of the environment, Svend Auken, told companies seeking permission to build coal-powered generators that they could go ahead on the condition that they also build two of the world’s first offshore wind farms. They did. One worked, the other was a mess. Both gave the owners experiri. It was a start.
