Danish Energy Agency

August 14, 2017
Lithuania: Can Solar Thermal Beat Low Biomass Heat Prices?

With biomass prices on the rise, solar district heating could become profitable in Lithuania. But without investment grants, payback periods were still too long, it said in the conclusion of a 2015 SDH market study by LEI, the Lithuanian Energy Institute (see the attached document in...
April 2, 2015
Denmark: Abundant Biomass, Little Solar in Industry Incentive Scheme

Danish incentive programme RE for Production Processes has been extended by another year until 2021. In 2014, in its first full year, the scheme supported 196 renewable projects, of which only one included solar heat. Since the programme began in August 2013, it has funded all together ten...
January 30, 2015
Denmark: Combined CSP and Flat Plate Collector System Supplies Solar District Heating

7 January 2015 was the starting date for the construction of a unique solar heat plant for district heating in the Danish village of Tårs, 30 km north of Aalborg. It combines parabolic trough collectors and flat plate collectors in order to cover 30 % of the heat demand by the...
September 26, 2013
Denmark: Launch of Subsidy Scheme for the Industrial Sector

Denmark can now look at the “sunny” side of things: Mostly associated with wind, the Scandinavian country has recently had a remarkable record when it comes to solar thermal energy, which is widely used for...
October 2, 2011
Denmark: Solar District Heating Capacity increases 5-fold

Solar heat is penetrating Denmark’s district heating networks at an unprecedented rate: Around 90,000m² of collector area (63 MW_th) are going to be connected to the country’s networks in 2011. The map shows the existing and planned solar district heating systems in...
February 23, 2010
Large Solar Thermal Systems: Development and Perspectives (2008)

Currently there are around 120 large scale solar heating plants with more than 500 m2 of solar collectors in operation in Europe, 10 of which are located in Denmark. The first Danish plant was built in 1987 with 1,000 m2 of ground mounted collectors. Today it still remains active, producing...