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Denmark's 2022 Green Tax Reform for Industry phased in a new CO2 tax on industrial emissions. To cushion the most CO2-intensive, trade-exposed firms from the resulting cost shock, Energistyrelsen stood up Investeringsstøtten as a compensating investment-grant pool running in annual tranches from 2025 through 2030, with a cumulative envelope of roughly DKK 1 billion. The scheme is a straightforward decarbonisation capex subsidy — DKK 1,000 per tonne of CO2 abated, capped at 60% of eligible project cost — rather than an operating subsidy, and is scoped to firms whose CO2-tax burden is large relative to their value added.
Sector scope is broad within "CO2-intensive": general manufacturing processes, mineral/mineralogical processing, oil refining, domestic shipping (ferries operating in Danish waters), and North Sea offshore platforms. This spread — spanning onshore heavy industry and maritime transport — is consistent with the GTA classification of the underlying intervention against extraction-adjacent sectors (crude petroleum, iron ore, uranium/thorium ore), since oil refining and North Sea offshore work sit directly upstream of those CPC categories.
envelope — later-year tranches (2026-2030) are the ones likely to move the needle on Danish industrial decarbonisation capex.
route for retrofits/newbuilds distinct from the EU RRF-backed green-ferry scheme (EUR 27m, separate programme, targeting 15 ferries by end-2025).
number/press release was issued — this is a block-exempted scheme, which is why it does not appear in the European Commission's State Aid Weekly e-News or presscorner alongside Denmark's larger notified schemes (e.g. the EUR 1.1bn CCS scheme, EUR 1.7bn renewable-gas scheme).
published by Energistyrelsen; watch for the agency's mid-year update.