In order to increase the pace of the green transition, the government has reduced the national energy crisis staff NEKST. And just before the turn of the year, the government received recommendations on how the case handling of complaints about solar cell and wind turbine projects can be made more efficient.
Energy crisis staff pointed out, among other things that a faster processing of appeals in the independent Danish appeals boards would facilitate the process of setting up more renewable energy.
That is why the government is now ready with a bill to 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 Trade and Industry in an announcement.
- With the bill, we want to ensure that the appeals process for solar cell and wind turbine projects takes place as smoothly as possible, so that the developers can move forward with their projects more quickly and have the green transition rolled out and accelerated in Denmark, says Business Minister Morten Bødskov (S) .
Must 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 served by the House of Nævnenes. With the proposed law, the appeal boards will be given the opportunity to set a reasonable deadline for when an adequate complaint and relevant information must be received, so that a lack of cooperation on the part of the complainant does not – consciously or unconsciously – drag out the complaint process.
Furthermore, it is emphasized that the appeal boards must stick to assessing the things that have been complained about and must stick to assessing the legal conditions. This reduces the risk of a permit for a project being declared invalid on the basis of something that has not been complained about.
- We are now creating a better framework for complaint handling, so that we ensure effective complaint 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 who work with the green transition in practice, have pointed to concrete 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 Climate, Energy and Supply Minister Lars Aagaard (M).
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