The deployment of onshore renewable energy sources such as wind turbines and solar cells is moving far too slowly in Denmark, according to several industry heavyweights, who are now submitting a number of proposals to Danish Minister for Energy Lars Aagaard.

The proposals are signed by the Danish Chamber of Commerce, Green Power Denmark, Vestas and Norlys, and one of the main messages is to speed up the approval processes for onshore renewable energy, writes business media Finans.

According to Niels Duedahl, CEO of Norlys, more wind turbines will be removed on land than erected in 2023, which is not good enough considering the Danish potential.

”It’s frustrating when both the technology and the capital are available. We just need to accelerate the processes around it and get significantly faster approvals,” Duedahl says to the media.

Among other things, the three parties propose a green processing guarantee, which means that it should take a maximum of 12 months to process and approve a renewable energy project on land.

The ambition is to quadruple the production of renewable energy from solar cells and wind turbines on land by 2030.