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2A A flexible strategy flexible strategy 16 Energy Strategy 2050 – from coal, oil and gas to green energy. The great challenge is to ensure an appropriate transition process. Over the next 40 years more or less the entire energy system will be replaced
In 2050 Denmark could well be a wealthy society which uses considerably less energy than at present and which covers its energy needs with renewable energy sources. This is clear from the analyses by the Danish Commission on Climate Change Policy. The great challenge is to ensure an appropriate transition process. Over the next 40 years more or less the entire energy system will be replaced. In some areas, the consequences of investments and decisions made now will have an impact right up to 2050. Therefore, it is important that energy policy supports the goal of fossil fuel independence. Without this, the goal will be harder and more expensive to reach. Denmark also has a number of energy and climate policy goals which set the scene for immediate measures. Therefore, it is necessary to adopt initiatives pointing towards the long-term goal of fossil fuel independence, and which contribute to meeting goals in the short and medium term. Energy efficiency and renewables are the two key focus areas to put Denmark on track to meeting the long-term goal of fossil fuel independence and to help meet the 2020 targets of increasing the share of renewables, reducing gross energy consumption, and reducing non-ETS greenhouse gas emissions. Measures should be organised cost effectively to achieve the highest levels of security of supply and reductions in fossil fuels for each DKK invested. This means that measures should be targeted, and timing is vital. On the one hand measures should not be forced through with unnecessarily high expenditure right now. On the other hand, the benefits of less dependence on fossil fuels and lower greenhouse gas emissions also have value in the years up to 2050. Measures should be organised cost effectively to achieve the highest levels of security of supply and reductions in fossil fuels An energy and transport system without fossil fuels Achievement of fossil fuel independence requires efficiency improvements in energy consumption to a level which can be covered by massive renewable energy expansion – although we will still exchange energy (electricity, biomass, biofuels etc.) with the world around us. The transition is outlined very generally in figure 2.1. 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 PJ/year 0 Households Trade and service Production Transport Ef�ciency improvements RE (possibly also CCS) Figure 2.1. Energy consumption and renewable energy 2009. Source: Danish Energy Agency Energy Strategy 2050 – from coal, oil and gas to green energy. Waste Other RE Biogas Wood Straw Wind Energy consumption 2009 Renewable energy consumption 2009 17
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Page 3 and 4: Content Preface ...................
Page 5 and 6: A new era for energy policy Energy
Page 7 and 8: The goal of the Danish government i
Page 9 and 10: What is implied by independence of
Page 11 and 12: Energy is a prerequisite for a mode
Page 13 and 14: Security of supply can be expressed
Page 15: The International Energy Agency (IE
Page 19 and 20: Utilisation of biogas The natural g
Page 21 and 22: Observed climate change The average
Page 23 and 24: Figure 2.2 illustrates that, in add
Page 25 and 26: Degree of commercialisation Mass ma
Page 27 and 28: Track 1. Examples where the transit
Page 29 and 30: With this strategy, the government
Page 31 and 32: Background The government will Good
Page 33 and 34: A greater use of biomass Background
Page 35 and 36: Background The government will A hi
Page 37 and 38: Background The government will A co
Page 39 and 40: Background The government will An e
Page 41 and 42: Ambitious endeavours for a global t
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Page 47 and 48: The government’s strategy contain
Page 49 and 50: On the way towards fossilfuel indep
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Page 53 and 54: Efforts for greenhouse gas reductio
Page 55 and 56: Thus this strategy provides Danish
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Page 61 and 62: The goal of fossil fuel independenc
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