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DENMARK

Kim Nielsen Rambøll

 

SUPPORTING POLICIES FOR OCEAN ENERGY


NATIONAL STRATEGY
Wave energy activities in Denmark continue to be driven by the Strategy for Wave Power published in 2012 and by the Danish Wave Power Roadmap from 2015.The efforts are ongoing in 2019 to have the strategy implemented within the new Danish government energy plans. The fundamental principles to make wave energy successful are the same that made Danish wind energy technology an international success:

  1. Financial incentives.
  2. Guaranteed demand.
  3. Long-term framework conditions.

Denmark has created a plan for the use of the sea; the partnership for Wave Energy has participated in the planning meetings – along with aquaculture, wind-power to discuss synergies that could be a result of shared use of sea space. Denmark has established the test site DanWEC. The Energy Agency is dealing with matters concerning permits of installation wave energy test units at sea.

MARKET INCENTIVES

There are at present no dedicated market incentives such as special feed in tariffs for wave energy. The proposal from the Danish partnership is to establish a combination of feed in tariff for a certain energy production combined with lower requirements to private match funding for the projects. 

PUBLIC FUNDING PROGRAMMES 

Wave energy in Denmark is funded through the EUDP along with other renewables. Innovationsfonden has since 2010 supported innovation in relation to activities related to waves and floating structures. The figure below shows the distribution between different technologies1.

EUDP has funded two wave energy projects in 2019 – Small Scale Smart Power Buoy - Resen Waves and Digital hydraulic PTO for Floating Power Plant.  Also, the impact of the Danish energy research, development and demonstration have been analysed by the Iris Group in 2019.

 

PROGRAMME GRANTS BY TECHNOLOGY - 2017 (DKK MILL.)

56674-program-fundung.jpgSource: Energiforskning.dk

 

 

1  https://ens.dk/sites/ens.dk/files/Forskning_og_udvikling/energiaaret18_uk_260618web.pdf