In Denmark renewable energy currently accounts for 15,5 % of the country’s gross energy consumption and more than 27% of all generated electricity. The Danish government has initiated a program to ensure that by 2025 30% of total energy consumption will be from renewable energy sources.

By attending the ‘Renewable Energy Tour’ your will gain insight into the ways in which renewable energy may be explored, and learn from the Danish experiences. You will experience modern technologies such as geothermal energy, wind-, solar-, and wave power, biomass facilities and visit a
waste incineration plant.

The Energy Efficiency Tour

Improving the energy efficiency of buildings, industrial processes and transportation will educe the global
energy consumption significantly, consequently also reducing CO2 emission. Efficient energy use is
something that can be introduced in all levels of society: from encouraging individuals to save energy, through the way we build our homes, to developing new, less energy-consuming industrial processes. Danish companies and organizations are at the forefront of this development.

By attending the ‘Energy Efficiency Tour’ you will meet industry business and research institutes all in the process of developing and testing new solutions and concepts targeted at making buildings CO2- neutral or net energy producing. You will visit companies offering innovative furniture and elements for urban spaces – e.g. solar powered LED-light, making it possible to have light during the whole dark
period – also in the wintertime. 

Although renewable energy is desirable as the basis for energy production it is unavoidable that the
global energy supply will still rely on fossil fuels in the foreseeable future. The challenge facing the
energy sector is to develop technologies that will allow us to use fossil fuels as efficiently as possible and reduce CO2 emissions. Improving fuel utilization rates and developing ways to combine fossil fuels with renewable energy sources is a step towards reducing the impact of fossil fuels on the environment. Today, Danish power plants, and combined heat and power plants, are among the most efficient globally – promising fuel utilization rates of up to 94%.

On the ‘Fossil Fuel Technology tour’ you will experience a Danish Energy-Efficient power plant, a combined heat and power plant, a micro combined heat and power plant and learn about fuel cells.
You will also have the possibility to gain insight into the carbon capture and storage technology.

An efficient energy infrastructure is a prerequisite for ensuring supply security and a better integration
of renewable energy sources. Providing the population with constant access to clean, cheap power and heating is a challenge that requires developing the energy infrastructure to encompass new energy sources. Efficient planning and the development of energy carriers to better distribute energy from renewable sources are key elements in developing the energy systems and infrastructure of the future.

On the ‘Infrastucture and energy carriers tour’ your will get the change to gain knowledge of district heating and cooling, energy systems and planning and hydrogen-related technologies . 

Denmark has come a long way in the area of intelligent energy systems. And in the future we will most
likely see a very different energy system from today’s – one that is more distributed and more
intelligent. The vision is one of distributed energy generation and smart grids. Whole cities will act as distributed power plants, channeling energy from individual, energy-producing buildings into common use. Your home, or building, would generate clean power and sell the surplus to the grid at peak prices, and buy any extra power you need when prices are low. Even cars could become an integrated part of this system.

On the ‘Intelligent Energy Tour’ you will learn about the SmartGrid and IT systems in Denmark, visit intelligent buildings and maybe drive a plug-in and electrical vehicle.

Demands for cleaner and more resource efficient technologies will increase in step with an increasing
focus on reducing energy consumption and emissions and minimizing waste disposal problems. The
challenge is to develop processes that are both economically viable and environmentally sound.
Danish companies and organisations have a well-established expertise in developing and introducing these cleaner technologies and processes.

On the ‘Environmental Technology Tour’ you can experience for instance Danish windmill technology firsthand and learn more about the wave star technology.