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How Denmark's wind and solar investments shield it from global energy turmoil

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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The European Union's climate commissioner has told the 27-country bloc that the only way out of energy crises fueled by the wars in Iran and Ukraine is homegrown energy, and that the EU must accelerate its transition away from fossil fuels. One country leading the charge towards green energy is Denmark. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports for our series, Tipping Point. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

European Union's climate commissioner has told the 27 country block that the only way out of energy crises fueled by the wars in Iran and Ukraine is homegrown energy, and that the EU must accelerate its transition away from fossil fuels.

0:16.2

A special correspondent Malcolm Brabant tells us one country leading the charge towards green energy is Denmark.

0:22.5

It's part of our ongoing series, Tipping Point.

0:29.6

Wind turbines are a pet presidential peeve.

0:33.5

They killed the birds. They ruin your landscapes.

0:36.5

Other than that, I think they're fabulous, by the way.

0:39.3

Stupid people buy them.

0:41.3

At the Davos Economic Forum in January, the President doubled down.

0:45.3

There are windmills all over Europe.

0:48.3

There are windmills all over the place, and they are losers. One thing I've noticed is that the more windmills a country has,

0:58.0

the more money that country loses and the worst that country is doing.

1:03.0

Ready to be exported, these enormous wind turbine blades

1:07.0

are a tangible fact check of President Trump's claims. Denmark is consistently

1:13.4

ranked in the world's top-10 economies, thanks in part to its expertise in exploiting green energy.

1:21.4

The industry employs 107,000 people and earns about $17 billion a year.

1:28.3

So what is Denmark's response to the president's stupid jib?

1:32.3

Well, then there must be a lot of stupid people in the U.S.

1:35.3

Because there are a lot of states, companies and utilities in the U.S.

1:40.3

that is actually buying wind turbines right now.

1:43.3

Because the prices come down,

1:45.0

the price of power coming out of a wind turbine is cheaper than that of natural gas.

1:51.0

Providing a human scale for these giant blades is Christian Jensen, who was formerly Denmark's

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