The authorities cannot approve the plan that the National Association of Local Authorities (KL) has made for an adaptation of the waste incineration sector.
This is stated by the Danish Supply Agency and the Danish Energy Agency in press releases.
– It is the Danish Energy Agency’s assessment that KL has taken a constructive approach to the task of preparing the plan for capacity adjustment of the waste incineration sector, the Danish Energy Agency’s announcement states.
– The authorities assess, however, that there are several criteria that KL’s plan does not live up to adequately, the agency writes.
KL has prepared a plan to, among other things, ensure that it is the least efficient and environmentally worst facilities that close to align with the new climate plan.
But according to the authorities, it is not sufficiently documented that these are the least efficient facilities that the municipalities will close. And there are several criteria that the plan does not live up to, it reads.
KL was given the task of drafting a plan after a political agreement was reached in June 2020 for a “climate plan for a green waste sector and circular economy”.
KL’s plan, which was submitted in December, has been assessed by the Danish Energy Agency together with the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, the Supply Agency, the State Aid Secretariat and the Chamber Advocate, who have therefore weighed it and found it too light.
The ball is now in the state’s court, KL writes in a press release. One will not prepare a new bid on a plan.
KL believes that the government will privatize waste incineration in Denmark. And thus the public loses influence on socially critical infrastructure, says the appeal from the chairman of KL’s Environment and Supply Committee, Birgit S. Hansen (S).
– KL has delivered what the conciliation group has asked us for, but it should not be a secret that it has been a complex and comprehensive task that had to be solved in a very short time, says Birgit S. Hansen.
– Throughout the process, we have kept the authorities informed about what parameters the plan is based on. If they want to include other environmental parameters, distribute the costs differently or look at other alternatives to energy supply, they are free to do so, she says.