Installed capacity — Denmark
What Denmark could produce with everything running at once: installed capacity by source, as reported for 2026, next to how much has actually run.
- Solar 21.0%
- Onshore wind 20.2%
- Offshore wind 17.7%
- Biomass 14.9%
- Natural gas 11.0%
- Hard coal 10.7%
- Oil 4.5%
- Run-of-river hydro 0.0%
| Source | Capacity (MW) | Of total | Against 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solar | 21.0% | −108 | |
| Onshore wind | 20.2% | +1 | |
| Offshore wind | 17.7% | 0 | |
| Biomass | 14.9% | 0 | |
| Natural gas | 11.0% | −1 | |
| Hard coal | 10.7% | 0 | |
| Oil | 4.5% | −36 | |
| Run-of-river hydro | 0.0% | 0 |
How much ran at once
The highest output delivered at a single moment over the past twelve months, by source group, next to the installed capacity.
Of 14,873 MW installed, the most that ever ran at one moment was 21,721 MW — 146% of the fleet, on 30/03/2026, 10:00:00.
- Wind 13,676/ 5,639 MW 243%
- Solar 8,648/ 3,120 MW 277%
- Gas 1,967/ 2,298 MW 86%
- Biomass 9,333/ 2,215 MW 421%
- Coal 1,517/ 1,597 MW 95%
- Hydro 2/ 4 MW 53%
The peak is read from our own generation archive, not estimated: it is a lower bound on what the fleet can do. A small ratio means the group's sources never all ran together — reservoir hydro starts at peak demand, thermal plants sit idle when they are not called. A ratio above one hundred means the declared capacity has fallen behind: the figure is declared at the start of the year while new units come online during it. Groups are compared here rather than individual source types: the same source can report capacity under lignite and generation under coal, and at group level the two meet.
How it changed, year by year
Total installed capacity, from 2015 to 2026.
- 2026 14,873MW −143
- 2025 15,016MW +3,780
- 2024 11,236MW −5,930
- 2023 17,166MW +500
- 2022 16,666MW +702
- 2021 15,964MW +45
- 2020 15,919MW +54
- 2019 15,865MW +19
- 2018 15,846MW +904
- 2017 14,942MW 0
- 2016 14,942MW 0
- 2015 14,942MW —
The figures come from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform, installed generation capacity aggregated by production type. The year is the one the transmission operator reports for, not the year the figure was published.
Two things are not here: the number of installations per source, and batteries as a source of their own. The aggregated report does not carry them, and batteries fall under “other”. They appear the day the source publishes them separately.