Wind and Smart Grid Projects Advance Danish-Chinese Collaboration

4 April 2014

In spring 2013, the Danish Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Programme (EUDP) completed a joint call for applications with the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST). The collaborative effort came about through an agreement established by the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Building with the former President of the People's Republic of China Hu Jintao during his visit to Denmark in the summer of 2012.

The two projects are a wind power project headed by DTU Wind Energy and a smart grid project headed by Aalborg University. The EUDP will support the projects with a total amount of around EUR 1.34 million up to the their expected completion at the end of 2016.

Both projects focus on transitioning to renewable energy and on the uptake of renewable energy in the energy systems. China and Denmark share a number of challenges in these areas. Denmark’s extensive experience with effective solutions for green transition will help China ensure more sustainable solutions.

Paving the way to the Chinese market

The largest of the two projects is being led by DTU Wind Energy.

“We are pleased that the EUDP and their Chinese counterparts have decided to grant support for our project. This allows us to improve the models used to calculate and optimise the yield from wind farms erected in mountainous regions. The tools will ensure better optimisation of the yield from wind farms in mountainous areas so as to favour a green transition in China and many other counties. These are tools that we believe the wind turbine industry and many others can benefit from,” says Peter Hauge Madsen, Head of Department at DTU Wind Energy

“We are pleased that we can launch two exciting Danish-Chinese collaboration projects in continuation of the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Building’s collaboration agreement with the Chinese research ministry. EUDP expects that the projects will contribute to the establishment of knowledge about, and access to, the largest market for wind power in the world. At the same time, the projects will contribute to reducing emissions and to improving air quality in China," says Head of Office at the Danish Energy Agency, Nicolai Zarganis, who is also head of the EUDP Secretariat.

Support for the two projects is on the basis of the principle that the EUDP will support Danish participants, while MoST will support the Chinese participants in the projects. With this model, no support money will be crossing borders.

The projects were selected on the basis of comprehensive assessments and the EUDP’s usual procedure, including evaluations procured from external evaluators.

- Read more about the windpower project (current only in Danish)

Source: EUDP

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