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EnergyMetropolis
Esbjerg – EnergyMetropolis
With investments of billions of kroner in roads, railroads, land used for business purposes, education and research, the Municipality of Esbjerg plans to take advantage of the huge growth potential in offshore energy and bioenergy systems.
In the future, Esbjerg will be the energy capital of Denmark. Based on several decades of domineering the oil and gas industries and almost ten years of building knowledge and gaining experience with setting up offshore wind turbine farms, the Municipality of Esbjerg focuses on using the possibilities for growth in several forms of energy.
Under the joint name, EnergyMetropolis – The Municipality of Esbjerg, the municipality intends to expand the unique position within energy and energy technology in close cooperation with Esbjerg Business Development Centre. The expansion drive will take place both internationally aimed at potential customers in the energy sector and also nationally aimed at the industry and decision-makers. The marketing process will be made in cooperation with the city’s businesses, knowledge institutions and universities.
- Our growth strategy is sharply focused on two main areas, where we have strong competences, and where the market is huge: One area is offshore energy; oil, gas and wind energy and in time also wave energy. The second is bioenergy systems, since we also have strong companies within this field in our area, says mayor Johnny Søtrup.
Future investments of billions of kroner
With approx. 6.000 workplaces within oil and gas and approx. 2.000 within everything from design to installation and servicing the wind turbine farms, the Esbjerg-area covers all aspects of the largest forms of energy at sea. The city has more than 500 consulting engineers specializing in energy, and as for educations, the number of bachelor and graduate programs focusing on both fossil and renewable energy.
- We have seen that our knowledge and experience from four decades of working with oil and gas to a large extent are transferable to the offshore wind turbine area, and further on also wave energy. Our location, infrastructure and leading energy cluster consisting of more than 200 companies provide us with unrivalled qualifications for taking part in the future growth, says Tom L. Nielsen from Esbjerg Business Development Centre.
One of the leading energy business analysts in the world, Douglas-Westwood, estimates that Esbjerg is leading in Europe when it comes to the supply chain for offshore energy. During the next couple of years, this position is backed by public investments running into billions to expand the highways, railroads, port area along with education and research. In addition to this, private companies will invest considerably in order to get a share of the growth which emanates from the energy cluster around the Esbjerg area.
Experience the energy
To get an idea of how the energy flows through the Municipality of Esbjerg, you can watch this film:
New Energy
Esbjerg is at the heart of Denmark’s offshore energy sector and has been so ever since the production of oil – and subsequently natural gas – began in earnest in the 1970s. This position of strength within energy technology currently includes offshore oil, gas and wind power, as well as bioenergy systems.
Everything is interrelated in Esbjerg: extraction, offshore activities, energy technology – the sea, the wind and the gateway to the west. Esbjerg is synonymous with new energy.
The town is the site of a large cluster of companies closely linked to a dynamic education and research community. Already today, eight thousand of Denmark’s thirteen thousand jobs in the offshore sector are located in Esbjerg Municipality, and this number is rising.
The town also has the most well-situated port in Denmark, where international offshore companies and major wind-turbine manufacturers work closely together to exploit the synergies between these two industries.
Esbjerg is also home to the Offshore Center Danmark, which has more than 220 member companies dispersed all over Denmark, and in 2008 the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation named the organisation to be an Offshore Innovation Network for the entire Danish offshore industry.
Read more in the brochure New Energy (pdf, 900 KB)
