CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Denmark has approved a plan to build the world’s first energy island in the North Sea. About the Project: The artificial island, in its initial phase, will be the size of 18 football fields.

Detailed explanation-2: -The artificial island will be linked to hundreds of offshore wind turbines and will supply both powers to households and green hydrogen for use in shipping, aviation, industry and heavy transport. Denmark: Capital-Copenhagen.

Detailed explanation-3: -At such a scale, the island will be able to transport an abundance of electricity, and it may house facilities for storing the excess. Some spare electricity could even be used to convert seawater into hydrogen via electrolysis, creating a renewable fuel source for airplanes, ships and heavy industry.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sweco has been involved in other public construction projects in Denmark previously, including in the establishment of the artificial island Peberholm in the strait of Øresund. In August 2022, Sweco was selected as advisor by the agency for the next 9 years.

Detailed explanation-5: -The first artificial island was designed and constructed by China after 16 months of construction, and completed in August 1995.