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The Danish capital Copenhagen has announced a climate plan which will make the Danish capital CO2-neutral by 2025. The plan consists of fifty initiatives. These include some heart-warming ideas such as engaging lots of children in tree planting activities. However, to achieve more substantial emissions reductions, the commercial energy sector will have to do the lion's share of carbon abatement, according to the Danish Energy Association in its daily newsletter. 75% of the reduction - 375,000 tons of CO2 - will need to be achieved by the heat and electricity providers. The main companies are DONG Energy and Vattenfall. They are expected to meet these targets by shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy. To encourage them in their endeavours, a recent report shows that it is possible to double the amount of renewable energy used for district heating in the capital area from 35% to 70% by 2025, without incurring significant budgetary problems. To reach this objective, it will be necessary to to exploit biofuel and waste-to-energy technologies. In addition, geothermal energy should be used for heating and cooling. These changes should make it possible to run the entire district heating without using coal, according to the report. Director Inge Thorup Madsen of the Metropolitan Copenhagen Heating Transmission Company comments: "We were positively surprised by the conclusions of the analysis. We had expected that it was possible to incorporate large amounts of renewable energy into the collective district heating system, but that it could happen so massively and quickly while retaining good economics, is a very good sign."
Source: ClimateActionMap.org
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