Denmark (DK1): the live status of western Denmark's electricity grid
Denmark pioneered modern wind power, and its western grid - DK1, covering Jutland and Funen - now regularly generates more electricity from wind than it consumes in total. This page covers DK1 specifically because that is where Viking Link, Denmark's only direct interconnector to Great Britain, comes ashore; DK1 is also part of the Continental Europe synchronous area, unlike eastern Denmark's DK2, which is Nordic-synchronous. Demand, generation, day-ahead price and generation mix below are live from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.
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Wind alone regularly exceeds 100% of DK1's own demand - the surplus exports to Norway, Sweden, Germany and, via Viking Link, Great Britain.
Generation by source right now, ranked highest to lowest.
Generation mix over the last 24 hours
Renewable (wind, solar, hydro, biomass), nuclear, fossil and other, from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.
History
Choose a time range to see real recorded demand, generation and day-ahead price over time, from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.
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About the Denmark grid
Energinet operates Denmark's transmission grid, split into two non-synchronous halves: DK1 (Jutland and Funen, in the west, part of the Continental Europe synchronous area) and DK2 (Zealand, including Copenhagen, part of the Nordic synchronous area). Denmark built the world's first modern offshore wind farm, Vindeby, in 1991, and has kept expanding both onshore and offshore capacity ever since - DK1 alone now has enough wind capacity to exceed its own demand on a windy day, exporting the surplus across its many interconnectors to Norway, Sweden and Germany.
District heating combined-heat-and-power (CHP) plants, increasingly burning biomass and waste rather than coal, provide a flexible complement to wind's variability, alongside a fast-growing solar fleet. Viking Link, which began commercial operation in Boxing Day 2023, gave DK1 its first direct electrical link to Great Britain - at roughly 765km of combined subsea and underground cable, it is the longest interconnector of its kind in the world.
Records & context
- Wind + solar vs demandProduced more than Denmark's total consumption in 17% of hours in 2024, including one 67-hour run (national)
- Record wind + solar yearCovered 63% of consumption in 2024, with a record hour of 8,168MWh/h
- Record annual consumption~39.5TWh in 2025, about 5% above 2024
- World's first offshore wind farmVindeby, 1991 (decommissioned 2017)
- Viking Link~765km, the world's longest land-and-subsea interconnector - 1,400MW to Great Britain since 29 December 2023
Approximate wind share of DK1 generation by year - among the highest of any grid in the world.
Sources: Energinet, 2024 review, Kristeligt Dagblad (Energinet 2024 figures), Ritzau (2025 consumption), JAO (Viking Link). Last checked: 2 October 2026.
Data sources for Denmark (DK1)
The Elexon Insights Solution, NESO Data Portal and Carbon Intensity API that power the Great Britain pages are GB-specific and do not cover Denmark (DK1), so this page draws on a different source instead:
- ENTSO-E Transparency Platform - the pan-European grid data hub, required by EU regulation for every connected TSO (RTE included) to publish to. Powers demand, generation, day-ahead price, the generation mix, the 24-hour mix chart and the History section above, all via Denmark (DK1)'s own bidding zone. Requires the site operator's own free API token, obtained through a short registration process - shows "not enough recorded history yet" rather than a placeholder figure if one is not set or ingestion has not run yet.
Two figures are not shown on this page at all: ENTSO-E does not publish emissions intensity, and its generation-per-type data does not include cross-border physical flow per interconnector (Viking Link), so rather than show a permanently illustrative placeholder for either, they are left out until a real source exists. See the sitewide data sources page for how this compares to the other pages.