Denmark intends to implement biogas projects in Ukraine

MOSCOW. April 8 (Interfax) - Denmark will give almost six million euros to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund and is considering the possibility of implementing biogas projects in Ukraine, Danish Minister for Climate, Energy and Utilities Lars Aagaard said.

"We are giving 5.8 million euros to the Energy Support Fund. Ukraine can itself decide how to spend this money. The important task is to get through the next winter, and the money can help," Ukrainian media quoted Aagaard as saying at a joint briefing with Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko in Kiev on Monday.

Ukraine needs both short- and long-term support, and Denmark is actively involved, Aagaard said.

"Denmark and Ukraine have been cooperating on energy for 10 years, having started from wind energy, central energy-supply, and energy efficiency. Now there is a new added component, biogas. We know many Danish companies are willing to join this cooperation with Ukraine. We hope that Ukraine will get an opportunity to be efficient in this in the long run," he said.

"There are projects in the Lvov region. It is too soon to talk about them, they are still being developed. We are not talking about implementing such projects by the winter, but biogas is a real project for the future. We can see a prospect in this," he said.

The embassy is working to gather Danish companies keen to invest in Ukraine's economy, he said.

It was reported that the Ukraine Energy Support Fund had received by early April almost 400 million euros from Europe and the United States over two years of its operations. In particular Denmark, contributed almost 550,000 euros.