Regional Municipality of Bornholm / Business Center Bornholm

The island of Bornholm has the goal of becoming a 100 % sustainable and CO2 neutral society - we call this vision Bright Green Island. For a fully functional society with 43.000 inhabitants to reach this goal, planning, overall involvement and action is vital, and Bornholm is well under way. The starting point is one of the most ambitious energy strategies in Europe that lays out how 77 % of the island's energy supply will come from renewable energies by 2025. This combined with a strong public-private cooperation, the development and use of innovative energy-friendly technologies, a row of present and coming green projects, and a business plan that ensures the profitability of the transformation, makes the vision realistic.

Bornholm has a huge potential as a development and testing area for new renewable energy technologies. The island corresponds to about 1 % of Denmark in land area, load and population. The island's system can be isolated from the interconnected Nordic grid, and thus a power system with more than 30 % wind power penetration can be studied. The unique potential for isolated operation in island-mode, makes it a terrific full-scale laboratory for future intelligent power systems. This has already established projects such as the 2. generation bioethanol project BornBioFuel, and several projects of the Danish Technological University, on the island.