Adding gas from biomass to the gas grid - SGC

Danish energy policy is to contribute to ensuring Denmark a pioneering role in global sustainabledevelopment.The Danish energy policy is, among others, based on the following documents:• The Brundtland Report• The Kyoto Protocol• UN Climate ConventionThe Danish energy policy is described in the documents:• Energi 21 (Energy 21) [lit.51]. Energy 21 is the plan of the Danish government for sustainabledevelopment of energy in Denmark in an international context. In Energy 21, which waspublished in April 1996, the Danish Government maintains the national target of reducing CO 2emissions by 20% in 2005, in comparison with the 1988 level.• Opfølgning på Energi 21 (Follow-up on Energy 21) [lit.52]. In this report the status for meetingthe targets of Energy 21 is described and new initiatives to fulfil these are outlined.The government is maintaining the obligation so as to stabilise, by 2000, total Danish CO 2emissions into the atmosphere at a level below that of 1990 and, by 2005, to have reduced them by20% from their 1988 levels. For the transport sector, the government continues to maintain its 1990target of a further reduction of 25% by 2030.Denmark has one of the highest per capital rates of CO 2 emissions in the world on account of thehigh proportional use of coal in electricity production. On the other hand, Danish households andindustry use energy quite efficiently in comparison with other highly-developed industrial countries.Possibilities of reducing CO 2 emissions in Denmark exist through fuel substitution in electricityproduction.Denmark is willing to accept the reduction targets that follow from the conclusions of theInternational Panel on Climate Change. Should this be decided, Denmark and other highlydevelopedindustrial countries with high CO 2 emissions would strive to reduce them to half their1990 levels by 2030. Initiatives in the field of biomass are directed, firstly, towards conversion fromheat production plants only to combined heat and power units, secondly towards increasedexploitation of straw, biogas, and landfill gas, and thirdly towards reduction of the costs of producingbiomass for energy purposes.Consequently the government intends to:• Promote decentralised development of heat and power production based on biomass by:- promoting the use of gas from all relevant landfills for power production before 2005,- promoting the introduction of biomass before 2005 in some 350 block heating units withpage: 98