After a period of several significant defeats for the Danish transition, the government will now try to get green energy moving again. On Friday, the government will present new initiatives at a press conference that will revive the development of offshore wind and hydrogen production. The Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities writes in a press release.
The presentation comes after a time when the green transition has taken several hits. The supply of offshore wind turbines has collapsed, just as the production of hydrogen for green fuels has been further postponed with the delay of a new hydrogen pipeline.
According to Ritzau's information, the government will try to change that on Friday.
Will the first stage of the hydrogen pipeline be brought forward?
A key to getting the construction of green energy production back on track may be the hydrogen pipeline. Therefore, the government will change the conditions for the construction of the controversial hydrogen pipeline so that the business model becomes more attractive to companies. This can be done by changing the conditions for the state guarantee, Ritzau learns.
Such a change will make it easier for companies and the state to commit to building the hydrogen pipeline and then using it.
The pipeline will carry hydrogen from Danish factories to Germany, where a potentially large market in German industry is waiting to purchase the Danish-produced hydrogen.
Originally, the plan was for the hydrogen pipeline to go all the way from the Limfjord to Germany. The media outlet Finans has learned that the government will now start by simply laying the pipeline from the Esbjerg area to Germany to make it cheaper and faster. It is already in Esbjerg that the largest and most advanced hydrogen plans are found.
The hydrogen pipeline and the Danish expansion of offshore wind turbines are linked. A collapse in one of the sectors therefore affects the other. This is because many of the planned offshore wind farms were to supply electricity to produce the green hydrogen.
When the hydrogen pipeline was postponed by several years towards the end of 2024, it made it difficult for the business model behind several of the offshore wind farms. The historically large tender for offshore wind turbines subsequently ended without any bids.
On Friday, the government will try to break that spiral by facilitating the construction of the hydrogen pipeline, so that both wind and hydrogen production can get off to a smoother start.
/ritzau/
