State of the art facilities

PowerLabDK will test and develop Smart Grids technologies for the intelligent power system of the future. The new technologies will make among others make it possible to integrate a changing amount of electricity from wind mills in the energy system. The experimental platform will provide unique Danish opportunities within business development, exports and green growth.

PowerLabDK is led by professor and center director Jacob Østergaard, from DTU Electro. He says:
“ With PowerLabDK we will get state of the art facilities in Denmark. We will for example connect the power system at the island of Bornholm with the laboratories at DTU with advanced IT-systems with 33 % wind power, so that full scale attempts can be supervised and controlled. The facilities support Denmark as the center of Europe concerning development of smart grid systems and gives unique opportunities for cooperation between businesses and knowledge institutions. With PowerLabDK we can attract the smartest people in the world and the facilities will contribute to educate the highly demanded world class engineers.”

A world of business opportunities

“The Smart Grids technology opens a new world of business opportunities. There will be developed new services and new appliances that will surpass the mobile telephones with a significance that can be compared to the internet. The test platform will give unique conditions for Danish as well as foreign companies to explore the new opportunities. But it is developing fast, so I want to encourage the companies to seize the opportunity while it’s there”, says chairman of EUDP, Torkil Bentzen.
 

An important competitive parameter

One of the future users of the platform, chief of innovation and development from Vestfrost, says:
“The ability to coexist with the power net can become an important factor within the competition between producing companies, such as Vestfrost. We participate in the development of new smart grid systems and will in the future have the need to test and verify our technology. In this area, PowerLabDK gives the platform the opportunities that we need. All in all, there’s a number of new business opportunities combined with being the leader in this area.”
About PowerLabDK

The facilities at PowerLabDK are owned by the Center of Electricity Technology at DTU Electro, the Copenhagen University College of Engineering, Risø DTU as well as Østkraft on Bornholm, whose total net with 25.000 consumers is included as a full-scale facility. All the facilities are combined through an advanced control system and communication facilities.

For the actual financing of the project, private companies are contributing with approximately 4 mio. €, Green Labs DK with 2 mio. € and DTU are financing the rest. The private investors are ABB, Balslev, Energinet.dk, IBM, nkt cables, Siemens, Vattenfall, Vestas and the Danish Energy Association who is representing the Danish power companies.