The farming sector will be a significant actor in the future provision of energy. Therefore the Knowledge Centre is presently strengthening its profile in order to make bio-energy production attractive to farmers. 

Danish farmers shall in the future supply a bigger portion of the energy that is consumed by Danish society. Therefore the Knowledge Centre is strengthening its work on making bio-energy a business for farmers.

Michael Støkler has been employed as the new energy manager and he will collect knowledge on bio-energy from the different technical departments.

-There are already a significant number of activities ongoing at the Knowledge Centre and its subsidiary companies, and therefore there is a good and broad experience to continue from. In the different technical departments there is a lot of knowledge on production of bio-energy, both in the form of biogas and energy crops, together with electricity from wind turbines, that in this context is also regarded as bio-energy, says Carl Åge Pedersen, member of the Management Team at the Knowledge Centre, and adds:

-Furthermore our subsidiaries Blue Planet Innovation (BPI) and AgroTech have success stories in their own areas of practice.BPI has a close cooperation with several local authorities in making agriculture a significant actor in the future supply of energy and AgroTech has a number of activities including cultivation of energy crops, biogas production and other energy production technologies from animal wastes, crops and other waste products.

An interdisciplinary approach

Work with bio-energy requires an interdisciplinary approach and is therefore not only connected to the agricultural production sector.

The newly appointed energy manager will also be secretary to the Special Committee for Bio-energy comprising public appointees from the major production lines.

-Via cooperation with the Danish Agriculture and Food Council the potential of Danish agriculture in supplying energy shall be clarified for society at large in order to create an understanding that production of bio-energy is for the benefit of both the agricultural sector and the Danish energy supply, says Carl Åge Pedersen.