Denmark’s National Task Force for Renewable Energy Transition (NEKST) has presented 27 recommendations to the Danish government to help speed up and streamline project permitting.
The recommendations concern solar and onshore wind farm construction.
The NEKST working group’s recommendation include strengthening local support, creating faster processes and better interaction between authorities.
Nana Bule, chairperson of the working group, says: “In the working group, we have worked closely with politicians, civil servants and stakeholders across municipalities, green organisations and the energy industry.
“It has created a different and dynamic working community, with a broad anchoring in society, where we have come to depth with barriers and have been able to indicate concrete solutions.
“We hope that the government will continue to work on the recommendations and that the energy industry, municipalities, citizens and other stakeholders will contribute to speeding up the expansion of renewable energy on land.”
All recommendations on solar and onshore wind have now been handed in, and will contribute to realising the government’s ambition to enable a quadrupling of onshore renewable energy by 2030.
“I think NEKST has done a strong job.
“They have dived right into the toolbox and perhaps precisely because the working group has experience with the green transition in practice, many of the recommendations are easy to use.
“Some of the barriers they have pointed out in the recommendations are already being broken down, and others we need to take a closer look at,” said Minister for Climate, Energy and Utilities Lars Aagaard.