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The Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities (Danish : Klima-, Energi- og Forsyningsministeriet) is a governmental agency in Denmark. It is responsible for national climate policy and international cooperation on climate change, as well as energy issues, meteorology and national geological surveys in Denmark and Greenland.
The predecessor of the Ministry of Climate and Energy, the Ministry of Energy (Danish : Energiministeriet), was created in 1979, from the energy department of the Ministry of Trade. In 1994, it was merged with Ministry of the Environment and in 2005 it was detached from that ministry, to be merged with Ministry of Transport and Energy.
On 23 November 2007, the energy issues were de-merged from the Ministry of Transport and climate issues were de-merged from the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Climate and Energy was created.
| No. | Portrait | Name (Born-Died) | Term | Political Party | Government | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||
| Minister for Energy (Energiminister) | |||||||
| 1 | Poul Nielson (born 1943) | 26 October 1979 | 10 September 1982 | 2 years, 319 days | Social Democrats | Jørgensen IV Cabinet–II | |
| 2 | Knud Enggaard (1929–2024) | 10 September 1982 | 12 March 1986 | 3 years, 183 days | Venstre | Schlüter I Cabinet | |
| 3 | Svend Erik Hovmand (born 1945) | 12 March 1986 | 3 June 1988 | 2 years, 83 days | Venstre | Schlüter II Cabinet | |
| 4 | Jens Bilgrav-Nielsen (born 1936) | 3 June 1988 | 18 December 1990 | 2 years, 198 days | Social Liberals | Schlüter III Cabinet | |
| 5 | Anne Birgitte Lundholt (born 1952) | 18 December 1990 | 25 January 1993 | 2 years, 38 days | Conservatives | Schlüter IV Cabinet | |
| 6 | Jann Sjursen (born 1960) | 25 January 1993 | 27 September 1994 | 1 year, 245 days | Christian Democrats | Poul Nyrup Rasmussen I Cabinet | |
| Minister for the Environment and Energy (Miljø- og energiminister) | |||||||
| 7 | Svend Auken (1943–2009) | 25 January 1993 | 27 November 2001 | 8 years, 306 days | Social Democrats | Poul Nyrup Rasmussen I Cabinet–II–III–IV | |
| Minister of Transport and Energy (Transport- og energiminister) | |||||||
| 8 | Flemming Hansen (1939–2021) | 27 November 2001 | 12 September 2007 | 5 years, 289 days | Conservatives | Anders Fogh Rasmussen I Cabinet–II | |
| 9 | Jakob Axel Nielsen (born 1967) | 12 September 2007 | 23 November 2007 | 72 days | Conservatives | Anders Fogh Rasmussen II Cabinet | |
| Minister for Climate and Energy (Klima- og Energiminister) | |||||||
| 10 | Connie Hedegaard (born 1960) | 23 November 2007 | 24 November 2009 | 2 years, 1 day | Conservatives | Anders Fogh Rasmussen III Cabinet Lars Løkke Rasmussen I Cabinet | |
| 11 | Lykke Friis (born 1969) | 24 November 2009 | 3 October 2011 | 1 year, 313 days | Venstre | Lars Løkke Rasmussen I Cabinet | |
| Minister for Climate, Energy and Building (Klima-, Energi- og Bygningsminister) | |||||||
| 12 | Martin Lidegaard (born 1966) | 3 October 2011 | 3 February 2014 | 2 years, 123 days | Social Liberals | Thorning-Schmidt I Cabinet | |
| 13 | Rasmus Helveg Petersen (born 1968) | 3 February 2014 | 28 June 2015 | 1 year, 145 days | Social Liberals | Thorning-Schmidt II Cabinet | |
| Minister for Energy, Utilities and Climate (Energi-, forsynings- og klimaminister) | |||||||
| 14 | Lars Christian Lilleholt (born 1965) | 28 June 2015 | 27 June 2019 | 3 years, 364 days | Venstre | Lars Løkke Rasmussen II Cabinet–II | |
| Minister for Climate, Energy and Utilities (Klima-, energi- og forsyningsminister) | |||||||
| 15 | Dan Jørgensen (born 1975) | 27 June 2019 | 15 December 2022 | 3 years, 171 days | Social Democrats | Frederiksen I Cabinet | |
| 16 | Lars Aagaard (born 1967) | 15 December 2022 | Incumbent | 2 years, 22 days | Moderates | Frederiksen II Cabinet | |
A number of agencies belong to the ministry:
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DSB, an abbreviation of Danske Statsbaner, is the largest Danish train operating company, and the largest in Scandinavia. While DSB is responsible for passenger train operation on most of the Danish railways, goods transport and railway maintenance are outside its scope. DSB runs a commuter rail system, called the S-train, in the area around the Danish capital, Copenhagen, that connects the different areas and suburbs in the greater metropolitan area. Between 2010 and 2017, DSB operated trains in Sweden.
The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland is the independent sector research institute under the Danish Ministry of Climate and Energy. GEUS is an advisory, research and survey institute in hydrogeology, geophysics, geochemistry, stratigraphy, glaciology, ore geology, marine geology, mineralogy, climatology, environmental history, air photo interpretation, geothermal energy fields concerning Denmark and Greenland.
Dan Jannik Jørgensen is a Danish politician of the Social Democrats who has served as the European Commissioner for Energy and Housing since 2024. Within Danish politics, he most recently served as Minister for Development Cooperation and Global Climate Policy in the government of Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen from 2022 to 2024.
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The energy islands of Denmark are two large-scale offshore wind farm projects that the government of Denmark is planning to establish, in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea respectively, by 2030. In the North Sea, an artificial island will be constructed with the capacity to serve as a hub for up to 3 GW of offshore wind farms initially, and potentially up to 10 GW in the future. The artificial island may take the form of a sand island, steel platforms, or a large container lowered into place and filled with stone material, and would be located approximately 80 kilometres (50 mi) west of Jutland, at a water depth of 26–27 metres (85–89 ft). In the Baltic Sea, a hub will be built on the natural island of Bornholm that will be able to serve up to 3 GW of offshore wind farms.
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