While cool winds and rainy days are dominant in Danish weather forecasts, Danish Management Group looks back on a summer where the sun definitely shed its light on the company. Many important projects have been won, and Danish Management Group has particularly increased its presence in Asia.

In China, the company will manage a big wind energy development project. In Samoa, the company will implement the Samoa National Energy Policy. Danish Energy Management Thailand will be involved in 3 new wind farm projects, and last but not least the company will commence a big energy efficiency project in Indonesia.

Developing wind energy in China
A few months ago, Danish Energy Management was awarded its first wind energy project in the most booming wind energy market: China. The project in question is formally named “Provision of Technical Support/Services to the implementation of the Danish-Chinese Wind Energy Development Programme (WED)”.

The Chinese-Danish programme cooperation in the energy sector started back in 2005 with the launch of the WED Programme. The DANIDA programme originally had a duration of 3 years and an overall budget frame of DKK 45 million and has now been extended up to the end of 2009. The Chinese contribution is estimated at app. DKK 15 million, which will be provided in kind.

Clean energy on “bounty island” Samoa

On 31 July, the Asian Development Bank advised the company that we had won the project “Implementing the Samoa National Energy Policy (Components 1 & 2)”. Danish Management Group’s team of experts will now provide advisory services to the Government of Samoa for the establishment of the governance and operational structure of a clean energy fund and for the establishment of a designated national authority. The budget is 494,000 USD.

CDM wind parks in Thailand
In August 2008, the Danish Government signed Letters of Intent with a group of Danish/Thai companies that are leading the development of 3 windfarm projects in the northeastern part of Thailand. The three parks will in total have an installed capacity of 200 MW. All three projects will eventually be proposed as Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects and the Danish Government will initially purchase Certify Emission Reduction (CER) credits from all three wind farms until the end of 2012, which is also the end of the so-called First Commitment Period of the Kyoto Protocol.

Danish Energy Management will be responsible for the whole development process for these wind farm projects under its contract with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Identification and Development of CDM projects in Thailand.

Once completely installed, it is expected that the three wind farms will generate renewable energy that will replace electricity produced on various fossil fuels and thereby result in an annual emission reduction of about 220,000 t CO2/year. It is worth noticing that the province in which the wind farms will be located will not only be able to cover its total electricity consumption by renewable energy, but will also be a net exporter of renewable energy to several neighbouring provinces.



“This will be the very first wind project in Thailand, and we are therefore very exited to see if the measurements of the wind speed and wind availability ‘holds water’”, says Country Manager for Thailand, Karsten Holm. “We are also excited to start developing the CDM part of the projects”, Holm adds.

Indonesian energy efficiency
In early September, Danish Management Group won the DANIDA project “Energy Efficiency in the Industrial, Commercial and Public Sector, Indonesia” with a 28 million DKK budget.

Danish Management Group will be responsible for the following three main outputs in close cooperation with the Component Management Team:

1. A Clearing House for energy efficiency, which will promote and facilitate cooperation in energy conservation, raise awareness in energy conservation policy and standards, widen networking of energy conservation experts and facilitate stakeholder dialogue.
2. New large private and public buildings designed and constructed to be energy efficient. The aim is to ensure that the design and construction of large new buildings incorporates modern energy efficiency measures.
3. Operation and management of industries and large buildings to optimise energy use. The aim is to promote the adoption of energy efficiency programmes by industry and in large public and commercial buildings.

With four important energy projects won in Asia this summer, the sun will surely shed more light on the Danish DMG offices in the cold months to come.