High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The electricity sector in Denmark relies on fossil energy and new renewable energy: wind power, biogas, biomass and waste. Danish average consumption of electricity pro person was 0.8 GWh less than EU 15 average in 2008. Denmark invested in the wind power development in the 1970s and has been the top wind power country of the world ever since. Danish consumption of wind electricity has been highest in the world pro person: 1,218 kWh in 2009. Denmark produced more wind power pro person in 2009 than Spain or the UK produced nuclear power.