Welcome to Green Capacity

Our extensive branding campaign on energy efficiency, Green Capacity is initiated to share best available practices between Russian and Danish companies and administrations, as well as create public awareness on energy efficiency and energy savings in each of the four sectors; buildings, industries, district heating, water and waste water in Russia.

The Russian federal law on energy savings and increase of energy efficiency 261 has entailed a rapid development of the energy and environment sector in Russia, as well as an increasing demand for technology and knowledge on sustainable energy and environmental solutions.

Throughout four decades, Denmark has been widely recognized for its high standards and remarkable results within environmental protection, wind power, energy efficiency, district heating and energy saving.

Danish companies possess great experience and knowledge on renewable energy and sustainable solutions, thus offering to share knowledge, as well as cooperate with Russian companies and administrations on achieving cost reductions as a consequence of efficient utilization of resources.

Russian companies and administrations have the opportunity to:

study case stories on energy saving solutions implemented by Danish companies in Russia
exchange of experiences in the energy and environment sector
share knowledge on energy efficiency and energy savings
participate in seminars on energy and environmental efficiency in the four sectors according to the new legislation, for both Russian and Danish to benefit from the knowledge on sustainable solutions

Primarily, promotional events are targeted the five pilot cities chosen to be the first to implement energy efficient solutions: Kazan, Tyumen, Apatity, Perm, and Yekaterinburg as well as St. Petersburg which has great focus on this area.

We cooperate with financial institutions that finances energy and environmental projects in Russia such as EKF, NIB, NDEP, NEFCO, and IFC. We also cooperate with the Danish Board of District Heating, DBDH which has a number of different energy efficient activities in the district heating sector.

More cities will be included when it is relevant.

Khanty-Mansiysk as a new pilot city in Green Capacity

After our visit to Khanty-Mansiysk in the beginning of February they have now agreed to become an official partner city of the Green Capacity branding campaign.

Khanty-Mansiysk is the administrative centre of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and was founded in 1930. Today the population is around 80.000 which are more than twice the number of inhabitants back in the Soviet times.
The city is an oil boom town and along with the rest of the region it covers the majority of the Russian oil production which gives it great economic importance.

Khanty-Mansiysk is looking forward to learn about the Danish experience in the area of energy saving and energy efficiency among other things within hardware improvements, as well as we are very much looking forward to future cooperation and are delighted to welcome Khanty-Mansiysk on board.

22.02.2012

Part of the first Vladimir Energy Forum

The Royal Danish Consulate General took part in 1^st Vladimir Energy Forum, which was held in Suzdal in the period from the 15^th through 17^th of February. The main objective of the forum was to create a favourable business climate in the region in order to solve the energy tasks required by the Russian Government.

The participants shared and discussed their international experiences and the regional aspect for the implementation of projects within energy saving and energy efficiency.

Marina Piotrovskaya, Senior Commercial Advisor, participated with a presentation at the Plenary Part of the forum. She made the presentation “Energy Efficiency - Danish Way”, which was very warmly welcomed by all the participants and created great interest.

During the Forum Marina had a separate meeting with Alexey V. Konyshev, vice-governor of Vladimir Oblast on Construction and Infrastructure development. The Government of Vladimir Oblast is very interested in cooperation with Danish companies on energy efficiency among others because of the good results Denmark has obtained throughout the years.

The plan for the nearest future is to prepare the meeting with the Government and energy companies of Vladimir Oblast and discuss participation of the Danish companies in the planned projects.

17.02.2012

Preparatory trip for DBDH campaign to Khanty-Mansiysk, Tomsk and Surgut

From the 29^th of January through the 4^th of February Consul General of St. Petersburg Klaus Sørensen, Commercial advisor of the Danish Embassy in Moscow Julia Mitusova and Export Manager in DBDH Pia Zimmermannn went to visit Khanty-Mansiysk, Tomsk and Surgut to discuss the opportunities for further cooperation within energy efficiency and energy savings.

One of the important aims for the trip was to figure out where the conference in the end of June should be held; Khanti-Mansiesk which is the centre of the region, Surgut which is the largest city in the region or Tomsk which is the administrative centre of Tomsk region.
In that connection the Governor of Ugra Natalia Komarova confirmed the regions interest in hardware in relation to energy savings and energy efficiency and stressed the necessity of cooperating with foreign countries where they find Denmark as being the optimal collaborator among others because of the results Denmark has obtained.
Another topic which was discussed was how to teach the younger generation to be more energy efficient through education.

In general they were all very optimistic of a future cooperation!

13.02.2012

Denmark ranked as the second most innovative country in the EU

Denmark has just been ranked as the second best country, just after Sweden and before Germany and Finland, in the EU in terms of innovation and research. The Innovation Union Scoreboard 2011 is prepared by the Maastricht Economic and Social Research and Training Centre on Innovation and Technology (MERIT), in collaboration with the European Commission's in-house science service, the Joint Research Centre (JRC).

Almost all Member States have improved their innovation performance according to the Innovation Union Scoreboard 2011. However, innovation performance growth is slowing down and the EU is not closing the persistent gap with global innovation leaders US, Japan and South Korea.

In spite of that the EU still maintains a clear lead over the emerging economies of China, Brazil, India, Russia, and South Africa. However, China is improving its innovation performance and is catching up progressively.

To see the whole list of how the 2011 Innovation Union Scoreboard places Member States into four groups and to get more information about the Scoreboard you can read the full report here.

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Khanty-Mansiysk as a new pilot city in Green Capacity

Part of the first Vladimir Energy Forum

Preparatory trip for DBDH campaign to Khanty-Mansiysk, Tomsk and Surgut

Denmark ranked as the second most innovative country in the EU