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Danish People's Party signals its plans for Danish energy policy

Thursday, 05 August 2010 16:41

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The two most headline-grabbing components of their vision for presentation to the parliamentary group are substantial reductions in state support of wind energy, and of electric vehicles. Instead, Messerschmidt thinks that state support should be redirected into the areas of biomass, biogas, and biofuels.

Børsen reports that while Messerschmidt is sceptical of the warnings of global warming, he fully supports the idea that Denmark should make itself 'less dependent on oil from unstable regimes'. Messerschmidt's thesis is based on the premise that wind energy in Denmark is oversubsidised, and that Denmark's ambitions in the electric vehicle (EV) mass transport amount to 'a fantasy project'. He advocates instead a shift of energy policy focus to biomass.

According to a report from the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Denmark has the potential to increase its biomass production fivefold, and that is the basis for Messerschmidt's calling for a national biomass strategy. Only 5% of the slurry from Denmark's giant pig production is currently converted to biogas, and according to Morten Messerschmidt, one of the reasons why the figure is so low is that the price paid per kWh is too low - he proposes doubling it.

Messerschmidt is clearly convinced that EVs are already a failed project in Denmark, but he is not without ideas as to how he would like to see mass transport in Denmark become greener. Blending petrol with increasing percentages of second generation bioethanol produced from straw - reaching 20% by 2020 - is his formula for progress, accompanied by necessary state support in the transition period financed by lessened state support for wind power under certain circumstances.

Source: Denmark.dk