Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities (Denmark)

The Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities (Danish: Klima-, Energi- og Forsyningsministeriet) is a governmental agency in Denmark. It is responsible for national climate policy and international cooperation on climate change, as well as energy issues, meteorology and national geological surveys in Denmark and Greenland.

Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities

Klima-, Energi- og Forsyningsministeriet
The ministry's main office
Ministry overview
Preceding agencies	Ministry of Transport and Energy (partially) Ministry of Environment (partially)
Jurisdiction	Denmark
Headquarters	Holmens Kanal 20
Minister responsible	Lars Aagaard, Minister of Climate, Energy and Utilities
Ministry executive	Lars Frelle-Petersen, Permanent Secretary
Website	Official website

History

The predecessor of the Ministry of Climate and Energy, the Ministry of Energy (Danish: Energiministeriet), was created in 1979, from the energy department of the Ministry of Trade. In 1994, it was merged with Ministry of the Environment and in 2005 it was detached from that ministry, to be merged with Ministry of Transport and Energy.

On 23 November 2007, the energy issues were de-merged from the Ministry of Transport and climate issues were de-merged from the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Climate and Energy was created.

In 2019, the name changed from the Ministry of Energy, Utilities and Climate to the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities. The change in word order was criticized as it cost 141.546 DKK (€18,989).^[1][2]

Agencies

A number of agencies belong to the ministry:^[3]

• Danish Geodata Agency (Geodatastyrelsen)
• Danish Energy Agency (Energistyrelsen)
• Climate Data Agency (Klimadatastyrelsen)
• Danish Meteorological Institute (Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut; DMI)
• Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (Danmarks og Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse; GEUS)
• Public Utilities Authority (Forsyningstilsynet)
• Energinet
• Climate council (Klimarådet)

List of ministers

No.	Portrait	Name (born-died)	Term of office			Political party		Government	Ref.
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
Minister for Energy (Energiminister)
1		Poul Nielson (born 1943)	26 October 1979	10 September 1982	2 years, 319 days		Social Democrats	Jørgensen IV–V	[4][5]
2		Knud Enggaard (1929–2024)	10 September 1982	12 March 1986	3 years, 183 days		Venstre	Schlüter I	[6]
3		Svend Erik Hovmand (born 1945)	12 March 1986	3 June 1988	2 years, 83 days		Venstre	Schlüter II	[7]
4		Jens Bilgrav-Nielsen (da) (born 1936)	3 June 1988	18 December 1990	2 years, 198 days		Social Liberal Party	Schlüter III	[8]
5		Anne Birgitte Lundholt (born 1952)	18 December 1990	25 January 1993	2 years, 38 days		Conservative People's Party	Schlüter IV	[9]
6		Jann Sjursen (born 1960)	25 January 1993	27 September 1994	1 year, 245 days		Christian Democrats	P. N. Rasmussen I	[10]
Minister for the Environment and Energy (Miljø- og energiminister)
7		Svend Auken (1943–2009)	25 January 1993	27 November 2001	8 years, 306 days		Social Democrats	P. N. Rasmussen I–II–III–IV	[10][11] [12][13]
Minister of Transport and Energy (Transport- og energiminister)
8		Flemming Hansen (1939–2021)	27 November 2001	12 September 2007	5 years, 289 days		Conservative People's Party	A. F. Rasmussen I–II	[14][15]
9		Jakob Axel Nielsen (born 1967)	12 September 2007	23 November 2007	72 days		Conservative People's Party	A. F. Rasmussen II	[15]
Minister for Climate and Energy (Klima- og Energiminister)
10		Connie Hedegaard (born 1960)	23 November 2007	24 November 2009	2 years, 1 day		Conservative People's Party	A. F. Rasmussen III L. L. Rasmussen I	[16][17]
11		Lykke Friis (born 1969)	24 November 2009	3 October 2011	1 year, 313 days		Venstre	L. L. Rasmussen I	[17]
Minister for Climate, Energy and Building (Klima-, Energi- og Bygningsminister)
12		Martin Lidegaard (born 1966)	3 October 2011	3 February 2014	2 years, 123 days		Social Liberal Party	Thorning-Schmidt I	[18]
13		Rasmus Helveg Petersen (born 1968)	3 February 2014	28 June 2015	1 year, 145 days		Social Liberal Party	Thorning-Schmidt II	[19]
Minister for Energy, Utilities and Climate (Energi-, forsynings- og klimaminister)
14		Lars Christian Lilleholt (born 1965)	28 June 2015	27 June 2019	3 years, 364 days		Venstre	L. L. Rasmussen II–III	[20][21]
Minister for Climate, Energy and Utilities (Klima-, energi- og forsyningsminister)
15		Dan Jørgensen (born 1975)	27 June 2019	15 December 2022	3 years, 171 days		Social Democrats	Frederiksen I	[22]
16		Lars Aagaard (born 1967)	15 December 2022	Incumbent	3 years, 6 days		Moderates	Frederiksen II	[23]

See also

• Electricity sector in Denmark