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Plan shows Denmark will reach EU objectives on renewable energy

Friday, 16 July 2010 19:11

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The Danish government has submitted a national action plan for renewable energy to the EU Commission which documents that Denmark will reach its 2020 objectives, reports the Danish Energy Agency in a press release. According to the EU directive on renewable energy, the Danish share of renewable energy must account for at least 30% by 2020. In 2008, the share was 18.7%. The expansion of renewable energy must also meet a number of intermediate objectives in the period leading up to 2020. In addition at least 10% of Denmark's energy consumption for transport must be generated from renewable energy. The new action plan shows that Denmark's biggest renewable energy expansion opportunities are the construction of new wind turbines onshore and offshore as well as conversion of power stations and CHP stations from coal to biomass.

"I am delighted that with the initiatives we have already started, we are close to reaching the target, and that there are many specific opportunities to get the last bit of the way. In the next months we will be discussing these opportunities in more detail - both in the medium long term up to 2020 and in the long term. I am looking forward to the Climate Commission publishing its report in September concerning how Denmark can become free from using fossil energy sources," says Climate and Energy Minister, Lykke Friis. Every second year leading up to 2020, Denmark must submit a report to the EU Commission documenting that it is meeting the intermediate objectives. The deadline for the first report is by the end of 2011.

Source: Denmark.dk