FROM A GOVERNMENT COMPETITION TO A 100% RENEWABLE ISLAND.
In 1997, Samsø won a Danish government competition to become a model renewable energy community. Within a decade, islanders had financed and built wind turbines, straw-fired district heating and solar installations covering the island's entire energy use.
Energiakademiet opened in 2007 to share what was learned — not as a museum, but as a working academy where the installations themselves are the classroom.
