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Euro Ventures - Friday, November 20, 2009

Denmark's One Straw Revolution

Masanobu Fukuoka would have been proud of this. This is indeed an "one-straw revolution" towards a greener planet. Denmark based DONG Energy has taken a big step in meeting the carbon emission challenge facing the transport sector by producing ethanol on the basis of straw. This process to be streamlined in one of the world's first and largest bio-ethanol plants at Kalundborg in Denmark which was inaugurated by His Royal Highness Prince Joachim, along with Fritz H. Schur, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of DONG Energy and Anders Eldrup, Chief Executive Officer of DONG Energy. Torkil Bentzen, Chairman of the EUPD-program under the Danish Energy Agency and Kyriakos Maniatis, a representative from the EU Commission, both providing financial support to the plant, also attended the inauguration.

Inbicon, a DONG Energy technology company is building this plant, which will also produce lignin bio-pellets and C5 molasses. CPH plants will use the bio-pellets, and the other residue C5 molasses can be used for animal feed and other purposes, ensuring that all elements in the biomass are used effectively.

Anders Eldrup is looking forward with great confidence especially to UN climate change conference at Copenhagen in December where they plan to showcase the technology. On successful demonstration of producing second generation bio-ethanol on the basis of waste products, they look forward to new export opportunities in global markets.

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By Raghuraman R