To increase the pace of the green transition, the government has established the national energy crisis team NEKST. And just before the turn of the year, the government received recommendations on how to make the processing of complaints about solar cell and wind turbine projects more efficient.
The energy crisis team pointed out, among other things, that faster processing of complaints in the independent Danish complaints boards would facilitate the process of setting up more renewable energy.
The government is therefore now ready with a bill that will make the complaints process faster and more efficient. The bill will be presented in the spring of 2024. This is stated by the Ministry of Business and Industry in a statement.
- With the bill, we will ensure that the complaints process for solar cell and wind turbine projects is as smooth as possible, so that the proponents can move forward with their projects more quickly and roll out and accelerate the green transition in Denmark, says Minister of Business and Industry Morten Bødskov (S).
Will prevent cases from being deliberately dragged out
The bill will mean changes to the law for the Environmental and Food Complaints Board, the Planning Complaints Board and the Energy Complaints Board, whose secretariat is provided by the House of Boards. The bill gives the appeals boards the opportunity to set a reasonable deadline for when a complete complaint and relevant information must be received, so that lack of cooperation from the complainant does not – consciously or unconsciously – drag out the appeals process.
It is also emphasized that the appeals boards must stick to assessing the things that have been complained about, and must stick to assessing the legal conditions. This reduces the risk that a permit for a project will be declared invalid on the basis of something that has not been complained about.
- We are now creating a better framework for the handling of appeals, so that we ensure effective appeals processes that do not delay the expansion of solar cell and wind turbine projects. It is therefore good that the NEKST working group, which are actors working with the green transition in practice, has pointed to specific rules that can be simplified. I am pleased that through close cooperation with the working group and authorities, we are already ready to implement some of the working group's recommendations, says Minister of Climate, Energy and Utilities Lars Aagaard (M).
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