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Ambassador Anders Carsten Damsgaard joins Baltic Energy Island as a Senior Strategic Advisor. Carsten has served as Danish Ambassador to Israel, Afghanistan, Japan, China, and Italy, and his wide experience and exceptional qualifications will help us strengthen our international profile. With the agreement on the Bornholm Energy Island project, our focus has broadened. Our ambition is now to […]

At the North Sea Summit on January 26, Denmark and Germany took the final steps toward realizing the Bornholm Energy Island. At Baltic Energy Island, we are grateful and more than ready to move forward. Denmark and Germany have agreed to share the costs of the support needed for offshore wind. The cost distribution reflects

Peter Weinreich-Jensen and Anne Thomas are joining the board of the Baltic Energy Island foundation. With Peter Weinreich-Jensen and Anne Thomas in the board, Baltic Energy Island is strengthened by both an international perspective and with experience with regional issues, and they share a strong commitment to Bornholm Energy Island. Peter Weinreich-Jensen is Senior Director

Energy Island Summit was held December 1-2, 2025 and was a huge succes.  We had participants from all over Europe and an impressive group of speakers.   You can see all the speakers here: speakers You can see the programme here: programme Sponsors: NKT, Ørsted, 50Hertz, RWE, Port of Rønne, Bornholms Energi og Forsyning and Siemens Energy

DKK 8.2 million from the Danish Board of Business Development to strengthen Residential College Bornholm and attract more universities to the island Bornholm is taking yet another important step toward becoming a national and international centre for green energy with a strong focus on innovation, education, and research in energy islands. Together with the Technical

Baltic Energy Island has commissioned three analytical documents to serve as a foundation for discussions about the perspectives Energy Island Bornholm holds for Bornholm’s future development. The studies follow up on a socio-economic analysis conducted by the Centre for Regional and Tourism Research (CRT) in 2023, which examined the local economic and employment effects of

Baltic Sea TSOs, developers, industry associations, and public authorities met in Berlin on October 23 for the first Energy Island Forum Roundtable. Using Bornholm Energy Island as a case study, discussions focused on how we can succeed with a regional build-out of offshore wind and the energy system in the Baltic Sea – and on

We are proud that Bornholm will be the first hybrid energy island, but that does not mean we are on our own. We share the vision of becoming a sustainable green island with the other mayor islands in the Baltic Sea: Gotland, Åland and Saaremaa. We are all entailed in the green transition within Energy

The realization of Bornholm Energy Island has entered a new phase. The CEF grant of 645,2 million euro has been handed over by the EU Commision to Denmark and Germany, and Siemens Energy and NKT hold contracts. Energy Siemens Energy will deliver the core technology for the hybrid HVDC interconnector and NKT will deliver the

The Danish minister for Climate, Energy and Supply Lars Aagaard has announced that Energy Island Bornholm is close to becoming a reality. The Danish government now allows Energinet to sign an agreement for the establishment of the transmission cables and the transformer station. The cables will send electricity from offshore wind to Denmark and Germany. Bornholm Energy