DONG Energy co-founder of bioenergy consortium in Måbjerg

Together with local players, DONG Energy is establishing a green energy
consortium, Måbjerg Energy Concept.

Over the coming 15 months, the consortium will determine whether a number of
bioenergy projects are feasible and will be profitable. The consortium will
explore project opportunities in the form of new plants and conversion of
existing plants.

All projects will be within the scope of green energy generation based on local
biomass and waste resources, which will be used to generate a whole range of
energy products, including biogas, hydrogen, bioethanol and electricity and
heat.

The consortium will look specifically at the possibilities of constructing a
second-generation bioethanol plant, expanding the existing Maabjerg BioEnergy
biogas plant by adding a hydrogen generation plant, as well as converting the
existing biomass-fired CHP plant to enable it to handle waste products from the
bioethanol plant in future. Lastly, the consortium will study the possibility
of constructing a waste treatment plant that will use enzymes to separate waste
fractions for use in biogas production.

Besides DONG Energy, the participants in Måbjerg Energy Concept are:
Vestforsyning, Struer Forsyning and the waste company Nomi. Jørgen Udby,
Vestforsyning's CEO, is the chairman of the consortium.

Thomas Dalsgaard, Senior Vice President, represents DONG Energy in the
consortium.

”Maabjerg Energy Concept is highly ambitious and innovative, not just by Danish
standards. It will be a historic breakthrough for the energy sector if we
succeed in implementing it in full scale. That is precisely what we will be
looking into in the coming project phase,” he says, adding:

”DONG Energy has built up extensive expertise in both biogas, enzyme treatment
of biomass and bioethanol production, and we have already established a
demonstration plant. The establishment of Måbjerg Energy Concept will boost the
opportunities for Danish research and, especially, export of green energy
know-how."

The information provided in this announcement does not change DONG Energy's
previous financial guidance for the 2011 financial year or the announced
expected investment level.



For further information, please contact:

Media Relations
Ulrik Frøhlke
+45 9955 9560


Investor Relations
Morten Hultberg Buchgreitz
+45 9955 9750


DONG Energy is one of the leading energy groups in Northern Europe. We are
headquartered in Denmark. Our business is based on procuring, producing,
distributing and trading in energy and related products in Northern Europe.We
have approximately 6,000 employees and generated DKK 55 billion (EUR 7.3
billion) in revenue in 2010. For further information, see www.dongenergy.com

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