Denmark electricity generation now

This page shows electricity generation for Denmark as a whole. It is a national total: we take the five-minute real-time production data from Energinet’s Energi Data Service and add the western zone (DK1) and the eastern zone (DK2) together. We therefore cannot say how much of the wind or solar was produced on either side of the Great Belt. Prices, by contrast, are set per bidding zone and appear on the two zone pages, not here.

Denmark’s fleet is dominated by wind, onshore and offshore, with a growing solar share. The feed does not break thermal production down by fuel, so coal, gas, biomass and waste combustion are shown together as other. An import line is also included, taken from Energinet’s right-now exchange figure; we treat a positive value as import, but the source does not document its sign convention, so that reading is our inference.

Solar reports a small baseline of a few tens of megawatts overnight. Under our quality rule for night-time solar, which allows a small tolerance above zero, this is kept and labelled as metered rather than removed.

What moves the numbers: wind speed above all, then daylight, then how much neighbouring countries want to buy or sell. Denmark can swing between exporting heavily and importing within a day.

Limitations: the totals are provisional, the renewable share is derived from the categories we can see, and the ‘other’ group hides real differences in fuel.