Wood Pellet Market in Denmark

Denmark is a country where green energy is something to strive for; it is something that both the Danish government and the Danes are looking for.

Wood pellet and biomass energy is something that is being implemented, and there is a huge demand for wood pellets and for the furnaces burning of wood pellets and biomass to provide sustainable energy to reduce CO₂ production.

The wood pellet market in Denmark is one of the biggest in the world if you are looking at it per inhabitants. The market in Denmark has changed over the last 15 years and today wood pellet are not produced locally but imported from North America and from Russia.

In this century the wood pellet markets in Denmark has grown from being a private market to something the government has looked into and implemented into the government’s strategy for being completely rid of fossil fuels like oil, coal and gas by 2050.

The first introduction to wood pellets came test run in Sweden and USA in 80s and Denmark jumped on the bandwagon, but since then the production has not really increased, almost the other way around.

The Danish government and the consumers are looking into finding ways to reduce CO₂ by 95% using biomass and wind power and they are currently implementing biomass energy at several power plants and they are looking to add it to all power plants in the country.

Wood pellets are being produced in Denmark, but not nearly enough to live up to the demand from power plants and consumers who have their own wood pellet furnace. The production in Denmark has not increased in more than 10 years, but the consumption of wood pellets has increased 10 fold in the same time.

Wood pellets in Denmark is normally made from the chips left from making hard wood floors and other places where you are using wood and has chips and other things left over from production.

As the wood pellet market in Denmark is increasing and consumers and government is looking to biomass to get sustainable energy, the market is open for either opening a plant to produce wood pellets in Denmark, or maybe start to look at the growing Danish market if you are looking for a place to sell wood pellets in large quantities.

When you are distributing wood pellets in Denmark to power plants it is done in different ways all depending of you are delivering to a large power plant or you are delivering to a small plant or maybe to a private consumer. The large power plants are getting shipments by boat and many tons are delivered straight from the source and the small plants are getting wood pellets delivered by truck or by lorries. Private consumers are often picking up their own pellets from a central distributing central or at a local builder’s market, or they are getting small shipments delivered to the home address.

So everything is almost ready made for wood pellet producers to take on the Danish market, the distribution and the plants are there, where are you?