Turning waste into climate-friendly energy

cutting
edge
energy
industry
Industry
potential
Three companies give their opinion
on how Denmark’s energy industry
can best exploit its potential.
Tomorrow’s
energy system
Andrea Balasiu is Sales Manager
at Siemens, one of the companies
striving to meet future energy system
challenges with green energy.
Focusing on
cleantech
The Danish government has formulated an
energy policy which will create growth in
the energy industry.
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2050
Denmark
inDepenDent
of coal, oil
anD gas

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WORlD
clASS
By 2050 the world’s population is expected
to reach 9 billion. Due to improved health
and infrastructure worldwide, their standard
of living will be good.
But the world’s natural resources will
come under heavy pressure. Agricultural
land, water, raw materials and energy will
become increasingly valuable as demand
increases, reserves dwindle and access becomes
more difficult.
In the Nordic countries there is extensive
experience in using resources wisely,
and this has created a fertile environment
for innovative companies which develop,
manufacture and market cleantech products
and services at home and worldwide.
In Denmark there is broad political
agreement on achieving freedom from dependence
on coal, oil and gas by 2050. In
March 2012 an energy policy was agreed
that focuses strongly on improved energy
efficiency, renewable energy and intelligent
grid infrastructure, designed to accelerate
progress in the period up to 2020.
With its ambitious and forward-looking
energy policy, Denmark is a living laboratory
and workshop for tomorrow’s energy
and environment technology, to the benefit
of research and innovative companies
around the world.
Denmark has a world-class energy industry,
which is eager to engage in the development
of products and services for an
energy-hungry world.
Hans Peter Slente
Director,
The Danish Energy
Industries Federation
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The Danish Energy Industries Federation
energi.di.dk
Please address enquiries to
Kristine van het Erve Grunnet,
tel (+45) 3377 3369, Email: keg@di.dk, or
Esben Mortensen, tel (+45) 3377 3535,
Email: esm@di.dk
Martin
Lidegaard
MINISTER
FOR CLIMATE,
ENERGY AND
BUILDING
A green future
The government has made
a broad agreement in the
Danish Parliament on Denmark’s
future energy supply,
and also on creating growth
and employment in the green
energy industry. The Minister
for Climate and Energy Martin
Lidegaard gives his view on
the agreement’s significance
for the industry.
By: Bente Dalsbæk
The aim of the energy agreement is not
only to switch over to green energy, but
also to create growth and employment.
Where do you see the greatest potential?
In terms of wind turbines, we have two
world-leading manufacturers carrying
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out research, development and some of
their production in Denmark. Danish
companies are well advanced in establishing
and operating offshore wind
farms. Investments will also extend to
biogas and biomass.
The agreement can also create jobs
in energy companies, for consultants
and for manual workers who will have
a prominent role in helping companies
and private households to save energy.
What are your expectations of Danish industry
in relation to the implementation
of the energy agreement?
The industry has waited patiently for
the negotiations to be finalised, and
we are now doing everything we can
to get the legislation adopted as quickly
as possible. I hope the industry will

exploit the fact that we are in a unique
position in Denmark with a long-term,
stable energy policy which provides
every opportunity to focus on green
development. I hope that companies
will strive to manufacture their products
with as little energy as possible,
and that they seize every opportunity
for creating green jobs.
If the ambition level of the energy agreement
is met, what do you see as the next
step for Denmark’s green industry?
It will not end in 2020. The objective
is for Denmark to become independent
of fossil fuels by 2050. I am
convinced that the rest of the world
will follow our example. We will see
a strongly increasing market for renewable
energy and energy-efficient
products. An almost boundless market
awaits companies that seize the
opportunity. ·
Source: The Danish
Ministry of Climate and
Energy
”Briefly stated, my most important
political vision is to build a broad political
alliance with companies and
green organisations, so that Denmark
can play a leading role in addressing
climate challenges and demonstrate
that there is no contradiction between
a tightly formulated climate profile
and increased welfare,” says Climate
and Energy Minister Martin Lidegaard
on the ministry’s website.
THE ENERGY
AGREEMENT IN BRIEF:
On 22 March 2012, the Danish
government entered an energy
agreement with a broad
coalition in the parliament,
which applies to the period up
to 2020.
ENERGY supplY
– By 2020, 35 percent of Denmark’s
energy requirement will
be generated from renewable
sources.
BIOMAss
– The use of coal and gas for heat
and power production will to a
large extend be replaced by biomass.
WINd TuRBINEs
– By 2020, a 600 MW offshore
wind farm will be installed at
Kriegers Flak in the Baltic Sea,
and a 400 MW offshore wind
farm at Horns Rev in the North
Sea. An additional 500 MW of
onshore wind turbines will be
installed up to 2020.
BIOGAs
– The use of biogas is being expanded,
with subsidy being increased.
sOlAR ANd WAvE pOWER
– EUR 13,4 million over four
years is being allocated to support
new renewable energy technologies
for electricity production
including solar power and
wave power.
sMART GRId
– The Danish energy infrastructure
will be upgraded with new
technologies, to further optimise
the integration of renewable energy
recourses.
pRIcE
– In 2020, an average household
will pay EUR 175 more annually
for energy. Companies will pay
EUR 26,80 more per employee.
In total the agreement will cost
EUR 470 million in 2020.

THE DANISH ENERGY INDUSTRIES FEDERATION – SpEcIAl ADvERTISING SUpplEmENT
Powering your house with
electricity from your car
”In comparison to other
countries, much of Denmark’s
energy production
is already decentralised.
Around 30 percent is renewable
energy, and up to
50 percent of intrinsically
fluctuating wind energy
will be integrated into the
grid by 2020. It is clearly an
advantage to have this expertise,
which we can use
to lead the way in creating
development and growth,”
says Andreea Balasiu.
In the smart grid of the future,
private dwellings will be
equipped to produce renewable
energy as well as consume it,
so householders can both buy
and sell electricity to the grid.
One of the companies working
to make this a reality is Siemens.
By: Marianne Sommer
Somewhere in Denmark, an electric
vehicle (EV) arrives home to a house
with solar panels on the roof and its
own wind turbine. There is still plenty
of power in the EV battery, which is
plugged into the house’s own electricity
grid. Because it is a time of day when
many householders are operating
electrical equipment and electricity is
more expensive, the householder uses
electricity from the EV battery. During
the night, when electricity is cheaper,
the EV battery can then be charged up
from the grid.
”What can make this scenario a future
reality is that every house will be
equipped with an intelligent electricity
meter which enables electricity to
be sold to or bought from the grid depending
on whether the house is generating
more or less electricity than
it needs. At the same time, the usage
of electricity inside the house can be
made more intelligent,” says Andreea
Balasiu, Sales Manager at Siemens.
HOME AuTOMATION
Software applications will need to be
developed for electricity companies
so that they can constantly monitor
which types of production plant are
producing energy, how much renewable
energy there is in the system, and
what the pattern of energy consumption
and level of demand look like.
”Every house will be equipped with
a home automation unit, which can
plan and control energy use in the
dwelling and minimise electricity bills
by adjusting electricity use according
to price and availability. Consumption
can also be controlled by using a
web portal or smart phone app, so you
don’t even have to be at home to control
electricity consumption in your
house,” says Balasiu.
Eu suppORT NEEdEd
In order to realise these visions for
tomorrow’s energy system, political
support is needed. ”The EU plays
an important role in the financing
of demonstration projects, and also
has an eye to formulating standards.
All member states need to be part of
the standardisation process so that
systems are established which operate
across borders. It wouldn’t make
sense to have an EV that can only be
charged up in one country – the system
must function across borders,
just as mobile phones work anywhere
where there is a network connection,”
says Balasiu.

KEEpING THE BIlls dOWN
Calculations from Energinet.dk show
that when heat pumps are deployed
in the future, and petrol- and dieselengined
vehicles have been replaced
with EVs, electricity consumption by a
typical family will treble, but the cost
of it will not.
”Although consumption will increase,
the electricity bill will be 10-15
percent lower because we will become
more attentive to when it is cheapest
to use electricity,” says Kim Behnke,
THE DANISH ENERGY INDUSTRIES FEDERATION – SpEcIAl ADvERTISING SUpplEmENT
head of research and environment at
Energinet.dk.
Old electricity meters have already
been replaced with digital meters in
half of all Danish households. Energinet.dk
forecasts that the transition
to tomorrow’s energy system, where
a device will be coupled to the digital
electricity meter to provide automated
control of electrical equipment in the
home, will gradually take place over
the next three to five years. ·
”It will be smart
to let the large
energy users,
take the lead,
They will realise
significant economic
benefits
by saving on energy
at the right
times,” says Kim
Behnke.
WAsTE-TO-
ENERGY plANTs
IN dENMARK:
Turning waste into
climate-friendly energy
In Scandinavia, combustible
household waste is fully used
as a valuable and cost-effective
resource for producing electricity
and district heating.
By Maren Urban Swart
Denmark makes extensive use of the energy
contained in household waste by combusting
it in combined heat and power stations,
all of which are connected to the local
district heating system.
”Our use of energy from household
waste is 100 percent, because the steam
in the combustion flue gases is condensed
and reused for heating. This has the effect
of keeping our use of coal and gas to a
minimum,” says director of technology and
marketing Ole Madsen of Babcock & Wilcox
Vølund, a leading international supplier
of knowledge, equipment and technology
for power plants which produce environmentally
friendly energy from the combustion
of household waste and biofuels.
Denmark has cutting-edge knowledge
and expertise in waste-to-energy technologies.
The industry employs several thousand
specialists engaged in optimising
energy production in an environmentally-
and climate- friendly way, and has great
potential for creating exports and green
growth.
”Life Cycle Analysis shows that energy
production based on the combustion of
waste is in most cases the most environmentally
friendly and cost-effective way of
using available technologies. This has been
documented by researchers at the Technical
University of Denmark in their assessment
of a new state-of-the-art power station
in Copenhagen,” says Madsen. ·

THE DANISH ENERGY INDUSTRIES FEDERATION – SpEcIAl ADvERTISING SUpplEmENT
International
branding for green
Copenhagen THE plAN:
Copenhagen has been affiliated
to the Large Cities
Climate Leadership Group
(C40). This will help promote
the Danish capital’s green
initiatives and create growth
nationally.
By Maren Urban Swart
In 2005, the 40 largest cities in the
world forged an agreement to reduce
CO2 emissions by accelerating the introduction
of climate-friendly technologies.
Although Copenhagen is not
among the world’s 40 largest cities,
the capital was selected in 2011, along
with a number of other cities, to be an
associated partner because it excels in
green energy.
”We have been affiliated because we
have good solutions to many of the challenges
that cities face. Across the world,
other cities are impressed with our bicycle
culture, and by the fact that Copenhagen
has bathing quality water in the
harbour. On the more technical side of
The mission is
to reduce CO2
emissions by 20
percent by 2015
compared to the
2005 level. The vision
is to become
the first CO2 neutral
capital in the
world already by
2025. Copenhagen
Municipality
aims to achieve 75
percent of the total
CO2 reduction
from its energy
supply emissions,
corresponding to
375,000 tons of
CO2.
things we have our wind turbines, and
97 percent of our households are connected
to the district heating system,
which utilises energy in an amazingly
efficient way,” says the Lord Mayor of
Copenhagen, Frank Jensen.
Besides the wind turbines and district
heating, Copenhagen also receives
praise for its district cooling, geothermal
energy and the city’s water supply
system, which is very efficient with low
losses. It also has excellent wastewater
treatment plants, as evidenced by the
numerous harbour swimming baths
that are so popular with Copenhageners
and tourists alike during the summer.
Copenhagen also differs from many
other cities in its utilisation of household
waste for energy recovery.
”As part of C40 we gain a unique
opportunity for marketing the solutions
Copenhagen has implemented,
thereby attracting companies and investments
to the city, and perhaps also
helping Danish cleantech firms to gain
further export opportunities,” says
Frank Jensen.
GOING GREEN Is GOOd
FOR BusINEss
A city’s economy is a good place to
start when trying to convince mayors
worldwide to make climate-friendly
investments. Copenhagen has become
the head of a network of cities from
C40 which will explore green growth.
”When we invest in bicycle lanes
in Copenhagen, we do more than just
reduce carbon emissions and improve
air quality. For every kilometre people
in Copenhagen choose to cycle instead
of driving, the city saves around
8 US cents in terms of reduced congestion,
accidents, noise and wear
and tear on infrastructure,” says the
Lord Mayor. ·
”OECD’s calculations show that every 100
green jobs in the capital create 20 extra jobs
in the rest of Denmark, says the Lord Mayor
of Copenhagen, Frank Jensen.
Danish competences
improve water
management in India
Annual revenues and investments
in the water industry
worldwide total a mind-boggling
EUR 337 million. Danish companies
are gaining a slice of this
market on account of the strong
competences and leading position
they have in this area.
By Maren Urban Swart
Since 2009, Danish Water Forum (DWF)
network companies COWI, Danfoss, DHI,
Grundfos, Siemens Turbomachinery and
Water Centre South, together with the Environmental
Protection Agency and the
Danish Embassy in India, have strengthened
cooperation between Denmark and
India on water and environment.
”Our first focus area was wastewater
treatment. As a spin-off from that project,
the Indian authorities have also shown
an interest in our knowledge of how to
handle residual wastewater sludge when
wastewater has been treated,” says Jesper
Goodley Dannisøe of consulting and research
organisation DHI.
With their strong Danish knowledge
base which they jointly promote in India,
the Danish companies have encountered
considerable interest and have created
contacts as well as environmental and
commercial results. The Indian authorities
are not the only ones who have become
aware of Denmark’s strong position
in the water industry; private sector companies
have also made the discovery.
“An Indian contractor is very interested
in collaborating with Danish companies
since they know we have abilities
that they do not yet possess. DWF
has also signed an agreement with India’s
largest industry conglomerate Tata
Group. The nature of the water-related
projects at Tata will be specified at the
beginning of May,” says Dannisøe. ·

Green City
– Green Growth
The world famous city of Elsinore
is situated by the blue sea, but the
future vision is green.
There’s something green in the city of Elsinore:
a strategy to renovate the city’s old
buildings in an energy and climate friendly
way and to educate builders how to do it.
This will – besides maintaining Elsinore’s
reputation as an extraordinary beautiful city
– mean that Elsinore will be creating green
growth for all-ready existing business and
attract new business, new employment and
new citizens:
“It is important to us that our climate
strategy reflects that we build upon an already
well-preserved city with many historical
and cultural attractions. Our vision is to
preserve rather than just tear down, but at
the same time to be among the most climate
friendly cities, not just in Denmark,” says
Head of the Climate Division at the City of
Elsinore, Karen Marie Pagh Nielsen.
Elsinore has already made a lot of climate
renovation in the city’s many cultural and
public buildings and thereby made a significant
reduction of CO2 emission. In the last
three years alone the reduction has amount-
ed to a total of 7,7% through energy management
in buildings, climate renovations,
greening of the energy supply by turning to
more direct heating and renewable energy
and by green procurement policy:
“The key factor in achieving this and to
keep moving forward towards a green city,
is the cooperation between the business and
industry, the municipality and the citizens.
There is support both from the politicians,
the citizens and the business. We all share
the same ambitious goal: we want our city to
grow, but we want the growth to be green,”
Karen Marie Pagh Nielsen says.
Climate friendly Culture Yard
And wherever you turn in charming Elsinore
you will see that this cooperating climate
strategy has set its mark on the city:
Take The Culture Yard, the new cultural
centre created in the old shipyard at the
harbour, renovated and rebuild in a climate
friendly way with solar cells on the roof and
groundwater cooling as just a couple of the
climate actions taken in the renovation. The
Culture Yard houses Elsinore’s main library,
a large and a small stage, the Yard Museum,
exhibition hall, eatery, arcade, meeting fa-
Karen Marie Pagh
Nielsen is Head
of the Climate
Division at the City
of Elsinore.
cilities and workshops:
“We took an existing building, the old ship
yard, and renovated, rebuild and changed it
in to something that are used and enjoyed
every day by a large number of people – both
citizens and visitors. That is in essence what
we try to do with in Elsinore: recycling in a
large scale.”
FACTS:
the Municipality of elsinore has agreed
to many binding partnerships on the
climate area: they are one of the climate
municipalities in danish Society for
nature Conservation and obligated to
reduces CO2 emission by 2% a year up
until 2025. They are also Climate Partner
with dong energy and a member of
the Covenant of Mayors
helsingorkommune.dk

THE DANISH ENERGY INDUSTRIES FEDERATION – SpEcIAl ADvERTISING SUpplEmENT
60 percent of household heating
in Denmark is generated
from energy-efficient district
heating plants. If this technology
were introduced globally,
CO2 emissions would be significantly
reduced.
By: Maren Urban Swart
The demand for energy is increasing
globally in line with the inexorable
rise in global population. In order to
avoid adverse effects on the Earth’s
climate, it is essential that energy efficiency
is improved. One example
of this is Denmark’s unique achievements
in district heating.
”We have achieved this position because
we do not use resources to cool
down the hot water that is created in
“District heating has great potential, and is supported
by EU plans to ensure that waste heat from electricity
production is recovered and utilised,” says Rambøll energy
director Thomas Rand.
Climate friendly heating and cooling
electricity production, but instead channel
it into the district heating system,”
says COO Kim Fausing of Danish industrial
company Danfoss.
Only nine percent of the heat generated
globally in electricity production is
utilised. If this figure was increased to
12 percent, it would equate to the energy
generated by all the wind turbines in the
world. This statistic helps explain why
many countries worldwide are now looking
towards Denmark and its competences
in district heating. ”We are establishing
new systems and are improving
the efficiency of already existing systems
worldwide,” says Kim Fausing.
KEEpING cOOl
Danish engineering and consultancy
company Rambøll has also noted the
international interest. ”We see it in
FAcTs:
District heating is a system
for distributing heat
generated in a centralised
location for residential
and commercial
space- and water-heating
requirements.
the UK for example, which is establishing
an increasing number of isolated
district heating systems due to
sustainability requirements when new
urban districts are built,” says Thomas
Rand, energy director at Rambøll.
Rambøll’s system can provide both
district heating and district cooling in
a more energy-efficient way. ”We see
a need for this not only internationally,
but also in Denmark, where there
has not previously been a demand for
district cooling. The demand has occurred
because of an increased focus
on comfort in for example office buildings,
where computers are creating a
warm indoor climate,” says Thomas
Rand. The energy efficiency of district
cooling is five to ten times higher than
air conditioning systems. ·

Project Zero creates
green growth
A regional think tank in the
town of Sønderborg in southern
Jutland has launched a project
with the aim of making the area
CO2 neutral by 2029 and create
growth and green jobs. Many
positive results have already
been achieved.
By: Maren Urban Swart
Five years ago, the members of the think
tank FUTURA SYD set the objective of
creating growth in the energy industry,
which gave rise to ProjectZero which
aim is to make the Sønderborg area CO2
neutral by 2029, while creating a number
of green jobs.
“Many of the sub-projects have already
been carried out, and 50 green jobs
have been created in the construction industry
in association with investments in
heat pumps, district heating, insulation
and new windows,” says Peter Rathje,
managing director of ProjectZero.
“In the next two or three years the energy
efficiency improving project – ZE-
RObolig – will create an additional 300
new jobs among manual workers and in
the construction industry.”
cOMpANIEs WITH A GREEN
MINdsET
ProjectZero is supported by more than
100 companies and shops forming part
of the ZEROcompany programme,
which involves setting a strategy for reducing
their CO2 emissions by a minimum
of 10 percent in a year.
“It is clear to see that the companies
who are taking a leading position in
thinking green are also becoming more
attractive to their customers,” says Peter
Rathje. ·
THE DANISH ENERGY INDUSTRIES FEDERATION – SpEcIAl ADvERTISING SUpplEmENT
pROjEcT
zERO:
More than 100 companies
and shops
take part in ZEROcompany
learning
programmes
More than 500
house owners have
joined ZEROhouse
and are saving energy
and money
ProjectZero has recently
been accepted
into the Clinton
Foundation’s Climate
Positive Development
Project
ProjectZero collaborates
with cities
and universities in
the Nordic countries,
Germany, China
and USA
In 2007-2010, Sønderborg
municipal
area reduced its CO2
emissions by 12.6
percent
ProjectZero is supported
financially
by SE, Danfoss (Bitten
& Mads Clausens
Fond), Sønderborg
Municipality,
DONG Energy and
Nordea Fonden
Read more on
www.projectzero.dk
”Danish companies can increase their competitiveness if they implement energy savings.
Danfoss Solutions has the capital and can help organise it,” says sales director Lars Grønbæk.
Self-financing
energy-saving
Many companies benefit from
implementing energy-saving
initiatives. In just two years,
they gain a saving of 15-20
percent on their energy bill.
By: Marianne Sommer.
Lars Grønbæk is often met with scepticism
regarding the product he sells
– simply because it sounds too good to
be true. He is acting CEO at Danfoss
Solutions, which allows companies to
analyse their energy consumption and
subsequently introduce self-financing
energy-saving initiatives. In just a couple
of years, customers benefit from
savings of typically 15-20 percent. The
service Danfoss provides is called ES-
CO, which stands for Energy Service
Company, and Danfoss Solutions has
10 years of pioneering experience in
the area.
”Companies want to make savings
on their energy bill, but they
often give it low priority because of
lack of resources, or because money
is needed for replacing machinery or
for a strategic investment. The advantage
of ESCO is that companies do not
need to pay up front. They do however
need to spend time and resources
on the project – but significantly less
than if they received no help from us,”
says Lars Grønbæk.
At the start of the project, Danfoss
consultants and the customer
conduct an initial analysis of energy
consumption, which takes a couple
of months. The consultants then suggest
a number of areas where the company
can make savings and offer to
carry out the energy-saving projects,
while guaranteeing savings within
a defined period of time, typically a
couple of years.
cOMpETITIvE AdvANTAGE
The Danish biscuit and cake producer
Bisca is among the companies that
have made use of Danfoss Solutions’
offer to analyse energy consumption.
Bisca invested EUR 675,000 in
energy-saving initiatives, and with
annual savings of more than EUR
405,000, return on the investment
was achieved in just 18 months.
”We have made continuous efforts
to minimise energy costs and
CO2 emissions, but Danfoss Solution
conducted a complete analysis
in 2008 which provided us with
a greater overview. We have saved
about 30 percent of our costs since
then. Around half of the savings have
been made from employees changing
behaviour,” says the director of Bisca
Michael Budtz Berthelsen.
”The savings are very important
to our competitiveness. If we do not
do something to save on energy, our
cakes will increase in price due to rising
energy costs,” says the director,
who has subsequently appointed a
full-time employee to continue the
work of finding energy savings. ·
Read more about ESCO on
danfoss.com/Solutions

Doing something for the climate is
not just idle words in the Municipality
of Syddjurs in Jutland. The aim is
ambitious but the way to achieve it is
based on common sense.
Mayor Kirstine Bille has a pair of bird-watching
binoculars in her office, because Ebeltoft
Town Hall is located amid beautiful scenery
with an abundance of bird life.
The mayor has great interest in safeguarding
the environment, as well as ensuring that
the municipality’s ambitious climate plan is
more than just noble intentions.
“Empty words achieve nothing. We seek
results and have described what our actions
as a municipality need to be,” says Kirstine
www.syddjurs.dk
Bille.
One example is that the municipality’s own
buildings must become as energy efficient as
possible.
“In all our administration buildings, we have
set up screens so that staff can monitor energy
consumption. This helps us all remember
small things such as switching off lights and
computers. And it works. We can see it clearly
in our energy consumption. It demands an
Kirstine Bille, Mayor of the Municipality
of Syddjurs in Jutland.
“We set climate goals
we know we can reach”
www.syddjurs.dk
effort too, because our aim is to save two
percent on electricity, water and heating consumption
annually up to 2025,” she says.
Energy efficient solutions are also being
incorporated whenever the municipality renovates
or constructs new buildings – and the
same applies to citizens.
Kirstine Bille emphasises that the climate
plan must help create growth:
“We have many small and medium-sized
enterprises in the municipality, including carpentry
firms, blacksmiths and engineering
companies. Many of them are implementing
energy efficiency initiatives, and we need to
support them so that we can safeguard the
climate and create jobs for our citizens.”
Syddjurs has many villages, open countryside
and around 8,000 holiday homes. In order
to achieve the objective for energy saving
and the introduction of renewable energy for
these areas, the municipality needs collaboration
partners.
“We have many district heating stations
which use locally produced biomass. But
we have a challenge with our holiday homes
which are typically heated by electricity and
wood-burning stoves. So we will enter cli-
mate agreements with businesses, associations
and organisations which can help us
reach the objective.”
It is important to the mayor that citizens
and businesses see the sense of the climate
plan.
“We must avoid a them-and-us situation,
and achieve results together,” says Bille.
FacTS:
• The Municipality of Syddjurs is one of
the Danish Conservation of Nature Association’s
climate municipalities, which
have committed themselves to reduce
Hovedgaden 77 · 8410 Rønde · tlf. 87 53 50 00
CO
²
emissions by at least two percent
syddjurs@syddjurs.dk · www.syddjurs.dk
annually until 2025
• The municipality has also joined the EU
Covenant of Mayors, where the municipalities
commit themselves to higher ambitions
than the EU’s own climate objectives
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A clean future
university of copenhagen plays an important role in
solving our environmental challenges through copenhagen
cleantech cluster.
As part of Copenhagen Cleantech Cluster, University of Copenhagen
has its say in how our future is going to look or rather
smell or taste: How are we going to clean our air and our water
in the most clever and most environmentally safe way? Copenhagen
University is about to find out. The gap-funding part of
Copenhagen Cleantech Cluster has 579.000 EUR available for
promising cleantech inventions by researchers at University
of Copenhagen. And new inventions are already well on their
way:
“Copenhagen Cleantech Cluster has every potential of putting
Denmark on the map as a cleantech metropolis,” says Project
Leader Birgitte Neergaard, University of Copenhagen.
University of Copenhagen has a strong
green profile covering both cleantech,
sustainability, climate change and
mitigation. The University hosts Sustainability
Science Centre - a cross disciplinary centre
GREEN IS
IN THE AIR
Copying what the atmosphere
does to clean the air
by photochemistry and
downsizing it to be used as
a cheep and environmentally
friendly way to solve
indoor air pollution. That
is what Copenhagen University
professor Mathew
S. Johnson has invented
and is now testing under
the name ‘Green Air’ as
part of the Copenhagen
Cleantech Cluster project:
You might say I stole the
idea from nature and made
it faster, says the professor
and explains how the device
purifies the air using
natural chemistry and UV light.
At the moment a device is being tested in full-scale in corporation
with several companies in the windmill and container
industry and the potential is enormous since it will be able to
replace normal, expensive and not so eco-friendly heating-,
ventilation and air conditioning systems:
The test results up until now are formidable and the market
is already reaching out for this, so corporation with the industry
will take Green Air to a new level in the coming years.
ITS RAINING
GREEN
FACTS:
Copenhagen Cleantech Cluster is a
eU regional Fund project and one of
the largest global clusters dedicated to
providing necessary business conditions to
aid cleantech research, development and
implementation. University of Copenhagen
is one of eleven partners.
What to do when extending
the sewers is expensive
and in some cities virtually
impossible? When climate
changes make it rain
too much some places and
some periods and far too little
in other periods and other
parts of the world? Reusing the
rainwater is a well-proven idea, but
Copenhagen University professor
Marina Bergen Jensen is now testing
how to locally drain the storm
water in cities. She has invented
the idea of dual porosity filtration
of storm water runoff from roads,
which means that the storm water
is lead through a multistacked filter,
cleaning the water by every meter
of filtration without blogging the filter and without any use
of energy or chemicals:
What we end up with is water so clear and clean, that you
want to drink it, which you can if you boil it. This means that
this system can make an impact on a global market. Both in
terms of climate change adaptation. And in terms of providing
water for households.
At the moment the filter is being tested in a part of Copenhagen
in cooperation with The City of Copenhagen.
Nørregade 10, DK-1165
Copenhagen K
+45 35 32 26 26
www.ku.dk

THE DANISH ENERGY INDUSTRIES FEDERATION – SpEcIAl ADvERTISING SUpplEmENT
Exploiting
our potential
søREN ø. søRENsEN – GRuNdFOs
”The cleantech industry represents
one of Denmark’s strongest competences
for ensuring future growth and
sustainable jobs. New and innovative
technologies in energy efficiency
improvement, water and wastewater
treatment have been developed in the
OlE sANdER – scHNEIdER ElEcTRIc
”Compared to many other countries,
Denmark has gone from seeing cleantech
solely as green idealism to seeing it
as business potential. We are fortunate
that Denmark has an ambitious energy
policy which can create opportunities
clAus ANdREAssON – BWE
”Through the impact of decisions by
the Danish government, we have been
forced to innovate in various technology
areas, for example by making our
coal-fired power stations unrivalled
in terms of efficiency and emissions.
We have also developed cleantech
in Denmark to an advanced level,
Denmark has a unique position
in cleantech, which can
be exploited to create growth
and a better climate.
decades since the first oil crisis in the
1970s. And the industry has realised
strong growth both nationally and
internationally,” says Søren Ø. Sørensen,
group executive vice president
of Grundfos.
”This positive trend will be further
strengthened through attractive frame-
and jobs with the commitment of the
corporate sector,” says Ole Sander, managing
director of Schneider Electric.
”It doesn’t take large investments
to reduce costs and make production
more efficient. Energy efficiency improvement
is therefore good business
and have become leading suppliers
of technology in both fossil and renewable
energy,” says COO of Burmeister
& Wain Energy (BWE), Claus
Andreasson.
”If we maintain these technologies
and use them as points of reference,
Denmark will stay an energytechnology
showcase internationally
thisted – denmArk’s leAdinG
ClimAte muniCipAlity
Thisted is the centre of sustainable energy
Biogas
the municipality collaborates with the
farming industry. One of the reasons for
this is that they aim to solve the problem
with CO2 emissions in this way, and they
also seek to develop the farming industry
as a supplier of green energy.
a report has been prepared that
charts the biomass potential in thisted
Municipality.
Wind turbines
thisted municipality is planning more wind
turbines.
plan about district heating
environmentally correct heat supply
is being planned in the form of district
heating for more houses in the
municipality.
work conditions embedded in an ambitious
energy and climate policy and
water plan, and Denmark can set the
agenda here, especially in the EU. The
world’s climate and water challenges
must be met in a close interplay between
commercial driving forces and ambitious
laws.” ·
both for those who sell the products
and those who buy them. If you go
about it in the right way, this can help
improve competitiveness. I am convinced
that the Danish government’s
goal can be a driver for development
and exports in this area.” ·
which can create significant exports.
Power stations with low efficiency
and far bigger emissions than those
we can supply are being built today in
countries all over the world. With our
help, these countries can implement
Danish technologies in coal power
which are far more environmentallyfriendly
and energy-efficient.” ·
solar energy
thisted heat supply is establishing a large
solar energy system as a supplement to the
heat supply in Thisted town.
visit us and be inspired
the municipality often travels abroad
to spread the message about how it is
possible to become self-sufficient with
energy. Many delegations and tourists visit
the municipality.
40 ‘energy locations’ are ready to
receive business people, scientists,
students and groups that would like a
close look at how Thisted Municipality is
approaching the issue of energy supply.
Please read more here about Thisted
Municipality’s holistic energy plan:
www.thisted.dk/energiplan

Cleantech is
a gold mine
Political initiatives have
been launched in Denmark
to help the cleantech
industry to prosper
– but investment expert
Gregers Kronborg would
like to see more initiatives
to exploit the industry’s
growth potential.
By: Marianne Sommer
The Danish cleantech industry is a
goldmine, but in order to fully exploit
its potential , political initiatives
should be introduced which
make it even more attractive to invest
in the industry, thinks investment
expert Gregers Kronborg.
“The government deserves
praise for starting to address the
industry’s challenges concerning
growth. Two new initiatives
have been introduced: a tax credit
scheme and the opportunity to take
up growth loans. It signals that the
industry’s challenges are being acknowledged,”
says Kronborg.
The investment experts thinks
however that more can be done politically
to optimise the industry’s
THE DANISH ENERGY INDUSTRIES FEDERATION – SpEcIAl ADvERTISING SUpplEmENT
growth potential. There is a twofold
challenge: one is that the time
it takes from investment to return
on investment is long, needs capital
and is risky. The other is that other
countries offer tax credits, growth
loans and other schemes which are
more potent than those offered in
Denmark.
The UK, US and France give tax
benefits, subsidies and low-interest
loans to research and development
conducted by companies. Investors
also gain tax benefits when they invest
in cleantech, which provides a
financial motivation.
“Competition for knowledge-intensive
jobs is tough. An increasing
number of countries are cultivating
their cleantech industry and creating
attractive environments for
research, development and production.
Denmark has a range of benefits
which provide the basis for the
development, production and utilisation
of tomorrow’s energy systems.
We must make sure that we
translate these benefits into additional
growth by strengthening our
status as an international cleantech
powerhouse.” ·
More political initiatives
should be introduced to
make the cleantech industry
more attractive to
invest in, thinks co-owner
of Northzone Venture,
Gregers Kronborg
COO Claus Andreasson
from Burmeister &
Wain Energy (BWE).
Green teChnoloGy
equAls Green Growth
Denmark is number one in
the world when it comes to
power generation efficiency
at coal-fired power stations
and producing heat by
means of pure biomass and
a mix of biomass and fossil
fuels. This means money
in the public purse and a
greener Globe.
BWE holds three world records
that makes Earth a greener place
and helps global growth. The
records have to do with the efficiency
of power stations, and
the company has developed a
unique technology that provides
Denmark with the most efficient
power stations in the world. The
technique also represents a lead
in terms of producing heat by
means of a mix of biomass and
fossil fuels or by the help of biomass
only. This is a valuable export
item, observes COO Claus
Andreasson from Burmeister &
Wain Energy (BWE). He says:
“Today around 40 per cent of
the world’s power production is
based on coal, and this type of
energy will be with us for many
decades to come. So what we
must do is to optimize the utilization
of coal until we’ve developed
more green solutions.”
“According to figures from
2010, the average efficiency of
the world’s coal-fired power stations
is 30%. In Denmark, we
have Nordjyllandsværket power
station, which efficiency is
47%. If the entire world decided
to replace their coal-fired power
stations with Danish ones,
the world’s total CO2-emissions
would drop by 33%.”
Biomass means independence
The transition to green types
of energy is reflected in the
company’s development of the
world’s largest multi-fuel boiler.
This boiler can produce power
and heat by the help of both biomass
and fossil fuels. By generating
energy by means of power
station boilers capable of utilizing
pure biomass, the emission
of C02 is reduced to zero. Claus
Andreasson adds:
“What really occupies minds
in Europe is how we can become
independent of foreign energy
suppliers, and biomass such as
straw and wood chips are good
alternatives. Many countries
don’t have coal themselves, but
biomass is something you can
find in most countries. And why
would you burn straw in the
fields if you can use it for producing
energy?”
Burmeister & Wain Energy A/S
www.bwe.dk
member of the
B.p.A. Group

AAlborG in the leAd
As ClimAte muniCipAlity
An action-oriented policy and close
collaboration with industry and Aalborg
University mean that the citizens
of City of Aalborg emit less CO 2 than
the average for Danish municipalities
A citizen in City of Aalborg emits almost 25
% less CO 2 than does an inhabitant in an average
Danish municipality, and almost a third
of the municipality’s energy supply currently
comes from sustainable energy.
According to Alderman for Health and
Sustainable Development Thomas Kastrup-
Larsen, the Danish Social Democrats, the
reason for the municipality’s success is that
the municipality has acted in a very climate
conscious way for many years. He explains:
“A lot of our citizens are connected to the
district heating system, and a big part of that
heat is surplus heat from the company Aalborg
Portland or is produced by our almost
C0 2 -neutral waste incineration system.”
The council recently adopted an action-
Aalborg Municipality is involved in the following networks:
FleksEnergi – the aim of this
network is, among other
things, to phase out fossil
fuels from the collective
heat supply.
www.fleksenergi.dk
Hub north – a business network
whose objective is,
among other things, to develop
collaborations between
sub-suppliers to the wind
turbine industry.
www.hubnorth.dk
oriented climate strategy, which means sustainable
energy must make up 60 % of the municipality’s
energy supply by 2030. In 2050,
wind and solar energy, geothermal heat and
biomass are to replace fossil fuels completely.
Thomas Kastrup-Larsen adds:
“Others have climate visions as well as we
do, but we’ve acted on them. This year we’ve
allocated DKK 10 million for replacing systems
in the municipality’s buildings that
aren’t energy-efficient and DKK 5 million for
the setting-up of solar cells. We’ve been active
in the field of transport for a long time,
and we’re now going to transform our street
lighting into energy-friendly LED lighting.
All new buildings in the municipality must
comply with energy requirements that are
more strict than what the law requires.
Green business development
In order to save energy and achieve changes
in behavior, the technical service managers
in the municipality’s schools have
been trained as energy managers. Thomas
NBEN – Network
for Sustainable
Business development
in Northern Denmark.
This network has the aim of implementing
sustainability into
companies’ business plans.
www.nben.dk
Alderman for Health
and Sustainable
Development Thomas
Kastrup-Larsen, City
of Aalborg attaches
great importance
to ensuring that the
municipality’s climate
and sustainability
strategy is underpinned
by a range of networks
with participation of
business in northern
Jutland and Aalborg
University.
Kastrup-Larsen says:
”Everybody must help reduce energy consumption
by 40-50 % over the coming 40 years.
When children learn to cut back on their energy
consumption, they’ll influence their parents.
An important part of the climate strategy
is green growth, and Aalborg Municipality,
Aalborg University and business are involved
in a range of networks that are to strengthen
collaboration between the private and the public
sector on an energy-conscious municipality.”
“We’re in a position of strength globally
because Aalborg University, with its comprehensive
research on sustainable energy, attracts
researchers and industry, and because
we have many companies that are skilled in
development and production of sustainable
energy.”
Scan and see aalborg
Municipality’s Climate
Strategy:
aalborgkommune.dk/english-version

CEO of Kamstrup, Per Asmussen:
TRUE TO
OUR SPIRIT
With a staggering 30% organic growth in 2011 due to
technological innovation, Denmark based Kamstrup is
the epitome of Danish cleantech.
Managing energy infrastructure
The infrastructure of energy supply
becomes increasingly complex,
not least due to more sustainable
but unpredictable energy sources.
Kamstrup develop and produce the
innovative metering solutions which
form the backbone in modern smart
grid management.
MAKING MODERN LIVING POSSIBLE
The road ahead
to sustainable cities
2.000
This is an industry as dynamic and
rapidly developing as we only find it
in advanced electronics.
Kamstrup has own offices in 20 different
countries and export 85% of
its 1180 MDKK turnover in 2011. Still
Kamstrup has decided to develop
60%
houses in Moscow of the energy
and produce all its electronic components
in its own factory in Denmark
and export it to 60 countries
all over the world, even to China.
Per Asmussen explains: “To produce
electronics in a high cost country
requires fully automated production
lines. However, the greatest
advantage of this is not the savings
in labour costs, but the high quality
level, which we could never reach in
any manual production”.
Denmark is an obvious choice for
Kamstrup to develop the future business.
As Per Asmussen expresses:
“Kamstrup is heavily dependant
on continuous development and
technological leadership. 25% of
our colleagues work on technological
development, and the future
growth, we need the best skilled
people in our team. Denmark has
leading competencies in cleantech
and green energy”.
District Energy is one of the most e�cient ways to distribute heating and cooling to buildings in urban areas. Danfoss supplies systems
and products for district heating that along with other Climate & Energysolutions help cities to save energy and CO ² .
have reduced their energy consumption
with more than 30%. During renovation the
houses have been equipped with district
heating substations, balancing valves and
radiator thermostats from Danfoss.
produced in power plants is wasted.
By applying combined heat and
power plans and use of district
heating waste heat is captured
and utilized so e�ectively, that
only 10% of the energy is
getting lost.
Read more about Danfoss’ solutions for Climate and Energy on:
www.danfoss.com/solutionsready
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