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Think tank: Denmark isn’t a green frontrunner. Match our wood burn, and 9% of the EU turns into energy forest.

If everyone did the same, we’d need to reforest an area the size of Germany

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Denmark burns seven million tons of wood pellets and wood chips each year in the massive furnaces of its power and heating plants. The Amager Power Plant (Amagerværket) alone receives a ship loaded to the brim with wood chips more than every other day all year round.

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