There must be better access to gas on Lolland-Falster, and therefore the government will ask the state company, Energinet, to build a 115-kilometer-long gas pipeline from South Zealand through Falster and to Nakskov on Lolland.
This is stated by the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities in a press release.
- This is a very large investment that is necessary to help Lolland-Falster. It is about protecting threatened jobs and ensuring green transition in all parts of Denmark.
- The new gas pipeline will already provide large CO2 savings upon establishment, and in the long term it will be a completely CO2-neutral solution when we get enough biogas, writes Minister for Climate, Energy and Utilities Dan Jørgensen (S) in the release.
The price for laying the pipeline will be just under 800 million. DKK, and it is scheduled to be completed in 2024.
Will help maintain sugar production in Denmark
Gas is significantly more climate-friendly as an energy source than, for example, oil or coal. And Lolland-Falster is currently one of the only areas in Denmark where industry and housing do not have access to gas.
According to the ministry, the gas pipeline is important not least for Nordic Sugar - formerly Danisco and before that De Danske Sukkerfabrikker - which has major production plants in Nykøbing Falster and Nakskov.
- If sugar production in Denmark does not receive help to adapt, the assessment is that it would move to another place in the world. It would not be better for the climate, and it would be disastrous for Lolland-Falster, writes Dan Jørgensen.
Sugar production is quite energy-intensive, and according to the ministry, Nordic Sugar is Denmark's second-largest CO2 emitter with a significant 162,000 tons in 2019 - equivalent to the annual emissions of over 60,000 passenger cars. This can be reduced by about a third by switching to gas.
The government, together with a majority in the Danish Parliament, has adopted a climate law that binds the government to reduce Denmark's total CO2 emissions by 70 percent by 2030 compared to the level from 1990.
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