The entire country of Denmark is about the size of New Hampshire. The power those turbines produce has very short distances to travel. The nature of the off shore location of the turbines also sees a more active wind pattern than what the central USA is even remotely capable of.
Just the distances we have to move that power here in the US make it ridiculous. Even with those facts and prohibitive issues against this, they are still building wind farms all across the Midwest. We cannot possibly see anything more than 2 or 3% of our electrical needs being met by Wind power, even under the most ideal conditions. The vast amounts of distance and unstable weather patterns here, make the result seen in Denmark virtually impossible.
I understand that.
Being a country with a proportionally higher shoreline helps move the % up, but it’s still at 19%, which isn’t a failure FOR DENMARK, if you don’t consider the efficiency/cost of the things.
For the US, with a much greater requirement and a proportionately smaller wind availability, I don’t see it as a solution.
Long distance power lines are a great way to heat the environment.
But think you've got it bad, my state leads Australia in installed wind power, yah for us.
Except the backup is an electricity pipe running halfway across Australia to the coal fired plans on the east coast.
And here's the kicker. Days high demand (mid summer) are usually days of low wind. Now that extra coal electricity needs to be pushed down an electricity pipe that's already heated and sagging by the sun. So the load is cut back.