The prime minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, is pledging that the European nation’s home flights could be “green” by 2030. As a part of her New Year’s Address, she stated that (translated) “by 2025, Danes must have the opportunity to fly green on a domestic route.” She added that “by 2030 at the latest, we must be able to fly completely green when we fly domestically in Denmark.” It was a part of a broader dedication by the chief to toughen measures in opposition to polluters and to jump-start the nation’s inexperienced transition.

There are, nonetheless, causes to be involved that such an bold deadline will be reached, given the shortage of prepared alternate options. Electric planes could by no means succeed, and hydrogen flying, whereas way more promising, is nowhere close to able to be rolled out to a significant airline’s fleet. Not to say, after all, that solely hydrogen produced because of electrolysis, powered by extra renewable vitality, will be known as really “green.” EnergiWatch has stated that Denmark’s standing coverage of ready for magic bullet applied sciences to come back to fruition just isn’t going to assist it attain its worldwide commitments on local weather emissions.

That stated, Denmark has made extra steps than some international locations to assist make the transition towards zero-carbon applied sciences. The nation has already issued a tough deadline to finish oil and gasoline exploration and is an enormous participant within the wind energy business. At the beginning of 2021, it dedicated to construct a synthetic island which may acquire and retailer energy from Denmark’s wind farms, sufficient to produce 10GW. At the identical time, the nation hopes that any extra wind energy can be utilized to drive an electrolyzer, serving to it develop a pleasant sideline as a producer of guilt-free Hydrogen.