- If you have come here by train, then you are guaranteed to have come through Hvidovre, says the suburb's mayor Anders Wolf Andresen (S) as the first thing, before he dives into the subject in the debate on the red stage at the Climate People's Meeting 2024 in Middelfart under the title: Energy Communities Denmark.
In Hvidovre there are ambitions on behalf of the climate, which there is actually a plan and vision to make them succeed.
- We have a goal of being climate neutral in 2045. If you look at Google Maps over Hvidovre, you will see that we have large business areas, and a third of our energy consumption is from the business area, says the mayor and elaborates on the plan:
- Therefore, we have a huge need to expand local electricity production from the sun and wind. When you look at the map of Avedøre Holme, there are all the possibilities for setting up solar cells and wind turbines. But they must not share the energy, and something must be done about that.
Although the potential is already great on the roofs of companies, he sees the possibility of even more solar cells in an unconventional location.
- If it's not enough with the companies' roof surfaces, let's cover the motorway, which is about to be expanded to ten lanes, it says.
Security of supply at companies
The war in Ukraine is haunting in the background, and even though security of supply is high in Denmark, worst-case scenarios are being thought of. This is also the case in Hvidovre, and Anders Wolf Andresen sees an advantage precisely in being self-sufficient.
- A large business area that is self-sufficient will also increase security of supply should something happen to the electricity grid. And that would also mean that we don't put a strain on the electricity grid, concludes the Hvidovre mayor.
One of the local business leaders has taken the road from Hvidovre to Middelfart together with the mayor, and the director is equally enthusiastic.
- We can become self-sufficient with four wind turbines and 75 per cent solar cells. of the roof surfaces in the energy community. It will only be 20 per cent. of the time when we need power from the grid. It will also help to relieve the electricity grid, says the director of KLS Pureprint, Kasper Larsen.
And it is not only the small and medium-sized companies that will benefit from such an energy community.
- All companies, even the biggest ones, will get something out of it. The challenge is that there is an EU law that allows small businesses to create energy communities. But there is no EU law that allows the big companies, and this must be resolved, says Kasper Larsen.
Director of electricity company: Denmark has high security of supply
The director of the utility company Trefor from the Triangle area sees the word energy community a little differently.
- Energy communities are just right. We already have a good energy community in Denmark, which was also the case during the energy crisis. Security of supply works in Denmark, and there have only been two outages since 2003 in Denmark. It was for six hours in Zealand and then once in North Jutland, says Trefor's director Charles Nielsen.
If smaller local energy communities are to arise that also supply the electricity grid, then one thing is absolutely clear to the director.
- With small energy communities, you add some islands. And if they want to be part of the electricity grid, then they also have to pay to be part of the electricity grid, in addition to requiring some technology. It's a really nice energy community that we already have, says Charles Nielsen.
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