Danish Climate, Energy and Supply Minister Lars Aagaard will put out a total of 9GW of offshore wind projects to tender this year.
This will include Energiø Bornholm, Hesselø and a further 5GW offshore wind projects.
This will pave the way for a fivefold increase in Danish offshore wind by 2030, the ministry said.
The move comes as the Danish government seeks quick clarification on whether offshore wind projects under the open door scheme are in breach of EU regulations.
Aagaard said: “It is my ambition that the tender process can be started in 2023, which of course assumes that the process with the conciliation circle enables the ambitious timetable.”
The turbines from the 9GW of offshore wind will be able to produce green electricity equivalent to covering the annual electricity consumption of more than 9 million Danish and European households.
The power can also go to Danish PtX projects, the Ministry said.
Aagaard added: “We need a quick clarification on the open door applications, and that is our top priority here and now.
“The situation is untenable for the actors, and therefore there is a dialogue with the EU Commission at all levels.
“But in addition to that, we must also look at what we can do to increase the expansion of offshore wind via government tenders.
“That is why I will call for negotiations next month on the framework for us to start putting the construction of 9GW of offshore wind out to tender this year.
“It can fivefold our capacity of offshore wind, and the ambition is for the turbines to be spinning by 2030 at the latest.”
The 9GW of offshore wind originates from, among other things from the Climate Agreement on green electricity and heat from June 2022 and was concluded by a broad majority in the Danish Parliament before the general election.
These are offshore wind turbine projects that must be sent to government tenders, and therefore have nothing to do with the projects that have applied under the open door scheme.
The Danish government is currently analysing how to give the installers of offshore wind via state tenders increased freedom to set up more offshore wind on the tendered locations at sea than has been agreed so far in the climate agreement and other political agreements.
It can potentially increase the capacity of the 9GW considerably, it said.
Aagaard said: “The government will spend the next few weeks leading up to the negotiations investigating whether and how we should give the installers more freedom to build as much offshore wind as possible on the areas we have already designated.
“This could potentially mean that there will be significantly more offshore wind than the agreed 9 GW.
“In addition to negotiating the 9 GW of offshore wind, we also have to decide in the spring how the energy island in the North Sea is to be put out to tender.
“So although I am very aware that the situation with the open-door applications here and now creates uncertainty for the actors, the signal from this is that the government is focused on securing more new offshore wind as soon as possible.”