A more critical background. 50% of electricity from wind by 2020 was an actual declared goal of the previous, Social-Democrat government, already in the late nineties. But enter current PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen, a dogmatic neoliberal (who denied it to first get elected): when taking office in 2001, he elminiated or reduced most wind subsidies. A direct result was the collapse of the Danish wind market and hard times for the big Danish turbine producers before they could switch to exports. Ironically, the one subsidy he let temporarily in place, for repowering, produced a short-lived second boom way beyond expectations.

But rather than turbines owned/rented by farmers on land, the Social Democrat plan relied heavily on big government-supported, utility-owned off-shore wind farms. In this field, Rasmussen had more difficulty backing out, since the big utilities wanted the projects. At one point, he was forced to give consent to a part of the originally planned off-shore farms, and argued for no consent to all the planned by saying that those consented are enough to keep Denmark in plan, since wind on land progressed more than planned...

I note that the two big utilities are pushing for more wind with studies for a time now. Two years ago, there was a study proving that the Scandinavian grid can take 50% Danish wind with little modifications.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}