SØNDERBORG: Amidst the growing realization of how enormous changes the green transition means at all levels, there is also room for positive messages. And Climate Minister Lars Aagaard (M) chose to end his speech at the Climate Summit of the City of Copenhagen with one of these:
- I had a meeting with people from two municipalities in southern Jutland, where the main focus was on how we can locally benefit from all the green, cheap electricity that is now going to be produced all over the country. How companies will apply to do electrolysis, work with hydrogen and create synergy between hydrogen and biogas.
In the minister's words, it is nothing short of brilliant that the discussion about the location of energy plants has shifted in just a few years from having to produce electricity for people who live very far away, to new parts of the country now having access to locally produced electricity that can generate companies and jobs.
Lars Aagaaard particularly noted that the price of producing solar and wind energy has now come down to a rent that is affordable, so that establishing on land no longer requires public subsidies. There is simply money to be made. In fact, to such an extent that energy production is now the best way to make money for a Danish landowner.
Not for spectators
Aagaard assured the over 700 municipal politicians in the chairs in Alsion in Sønderborg that he has the deepest respect for the municipalities' work to make the puzzles work when allocating space for nature, industry, agriculture and energy plants.
Because space has become the limiting factor that means new plants don't just pop up all over the place, now that it has become so cheap to produce green electricity. The square and the electricity grid, which have not been fully developed.
- The green transition is not a battle for spectators, but requires cooperation, said the minister, who in this connection placed great emphasis on the fact that he now has regular meetings with KL top officials, where meetings between KL and former climate ministers only took place ad hoc.
Also in the new national energy crisis team - called NEKST - which the government has set up, KL has been invited into the core as the only external organization, where others are simply in the support group, he emphasized.
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