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Danish-Bangladeshi energy and clean tech projects in the pipeline
Danish Energy and Clean Tech Solution to Support Development in Bangladesh
In April 2010 the newly appointed Danish Development Minister, Mr. Saren Pind, visited Bangladesh. With him followed a group of 10 Danish companies working within the areas of wind power, solar, biogas, conventional energy and clean-tech water solutions.
More than 20% of all electricity is produced by renew-able energy sources in Denmark and Denmark is by far a world leader in this area.
Denmark is also one of the market leaders when it comes to clean water. "When you visit the capital of Denmark, Copenhagen, in the summertime, you will actually see people swimming in the canals in the middle of the capital. A number of designated areas for swimming have been set-up and these places are crowed with people on the sunny days. Not a lot of capitals can provide clean enough water in the middle of the city for swimming, but thanks to a tight regulatory framework and the implementation of high tech cleaning solutions it is possible in Denmark”, says the Danish
Ambassador to Bangladesh, Mr. Einar H. Jensen and moves on to talk about the need to transfer some of the Danish knowledge to energy starved and pollution affected Bangladesh.
"We had at the Embassy been talking about establishing a Danish Delegation to Bangladesh in late 2010. However, when it was decided that that newly appointed Development Minister was to visit Bangladesh beginning of April 2010 we decided to move quickly. The delegation was organized with a very short timeframe of 134-2 months and we were very happy that we were able to identify 10 Danish companies wanting to visit Bangladesh. Bangladesh is firmly established in the minds of the Danish IT-sector, but within other industries, Bangladesh is still an unknown country for most Danish companies”, explains the Danish Ambassador.
The Energy Delegation was a success and hopefully more companies willfollow
According to the Danish Embassy the Energy and Clean Tech delegation was an enormous success. "Of the 10 companies, I'm sure we will see at least 8 being active in Bangladesh within the coming months. We have already seen the first Molls being signed and some of the Danish and Bangladeshi companies are still discussing, their next step. We see both companies within large scale biogas, solar and wind power, but also within water cleaning coming up with project ideas and local partners to move on with.” says Morten Siem Lynge, B2B-coordinator and the Danish Embassy.
In light of energy and water pollution being some of the biggest challenges in Bangladesh, the Danish Embassy has decided to continue its focus on these two areas. Both in terms of supporting partnerships with the
Danish B2B-support programme, but also by assisting Danish and local companies establish partnerships on purely commercial basis.
"We will of course follow-
up on this success”, says Morten Siem Lynge. “1 hope that we will be able to convince more Danish companies to come to Bangladesh to explore opportunities in
the country. Visiting Bangladesh is essential for the foreign companies in order to understand the opportunities that exist here. Most of the companies in the
April 2010 delegation came to Bangladesh a bit skeptical, but left with a lot of enthusi-asm and eagerness to return.”, says Morten Siem Lynge.