Sharing international experience in Nordhavn
For two days, 5-6 March, experts in energy transition and digitalization from all over Europe met in the EnergyLab Nordhavn showroom for an exclusive event, FLEX-ERGY, discussing demand side flexibility.
Among the participants were numerous R&D actors from across the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Germany and pan-European projects. The purpose was to engage in policy exchange, sharing of best practice, and explore avenues for partnerships and collaboration in research and innovation, with focus on smart grid and flexibility demonstration and deployment, energy systems integration, the smart consumer and supportive policy frameworks and business models.
The event was hosted by the UK Science & Innovation Network, the FCO, DTU and Energy Unlocked in partnership with the UK Energy Systems Catapult, Swedish Smart Grid Forum, WindNODE and SmartGrids Austria.
In his introduction Mikael Mikaelson from UK Science and Innovation Network mentioned how the UK has succeeded in reducing CO2 emission by 43 percent since 1990 while at the same time experiencing economic growth. To reach the final goal of being completely CO2 neutral in 2050 electrification will definitely play a big role.
Following the introduction Christoffer Greisen, Project Manager, EnergyLab Nordhavn welcomed the participants to Nordhavn and briefly introduced the EnergyLab Nordhavn project. In his presentation he highlighted the public private partnership of key players from the Danish energy sector as well as how the project supports the goals from the Danish Government.
Among the participants were numerous R&D actors from across the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Germany and pan-European projects. The purpose was to engage in policy exchange, sharing of best practice, and explore avenues for partnerships and collaboration in research and innovation, with focus on smart grid and flexibility demonstration and deployment, energy systems integration, the smart consumer and supportive policy frameworks and business models.
The event was hosted by the UK Science & Innovation Network, the FCO, DTU and Energy Unlocked in partnership with the UK Energy Systems Catapult, Swedish Smart Grid Forum, WindNODE and SmartGrids Austria.
In his introduction Mikael Mikaelson from UK Science and Innovation Network mentioned how the UK has succeeded in reducing CO2 emission by 43 percent since 1990 while at the same time experiencing economic growth. To reach the final goal of being completely CO2 neutral in 2050 electrification will definitely play a big role.
Following the introduction Christoffer Greisen, Project Manager, EnergyLab Nordhavn welcomed the participants to Nordhavn and briefly introduced the EnergyLab Nordhavn project. In his presentation he highlighted the public private partnership of key players from the Danish energy sector as well as how the project supports the goals from the Danish Government.
Key learnings from European energy projects
As part of the program seven European energy projects were presented in what was called pop-up talks. The set up allowed for four minutes per project followed by a four minutes Q&A. Among the projects was FLexLondon which aims to use energy more efficiently and to supply London with more local clean energy. Another project was the Smart Energy Island Partnership which aims to enable the transition to a low-carbon, sustainable and resilient community on the Isles of Scilly.
One of the conclusions was that to move ahead with the green transition an understanding of what has already been demonstrated, what has been adopted and what challenges has occurred is key. It was also quite clear from the participants that new technology will not take us all the way if we don’t have the communities to back up the solutions. We need strong local stakeholders.
That is also one of the learnings from EnergyLab Nordhavn where local residents who use the new solutions every day and contributes with data plays a vital role in the project.
The EnergyLab Nordhavn project was happy to welcome colleagues from all over Europe to the showroom of the future sustainable and flexible energy solutions.
As part of the program seven European energy projects were presented in what was called pop-up talks. The set up allowed for four minutes per project followed by a four minutes Q&A. Among the projects was FLexLondon which aims to use energy more efficiently and to supply London with more local clean energy. Another project was the Smart Energy Island Partnership which aims to enable the transition to a low-carbon, sustainable and resilient community on the Isles of Scilly.
One of the conclusions was that to move ahead with the green transition an understanding of what has already been demonstrated, what has been adopted and what challenges has occurred is key. It was also quite clear from the participants that new technology will not take us all the way if we don’t have the communities to back up the solutions. We need strong local stakeholders.
That is also one of the learnings from EnergyLab Nordhavn where local residents who use the new solutions every day and contributes with data plays a vital role in the project.
The EnergyLab Nordhavn project was happy to welcome colleagues from all over Europe to the showroom of the future sustainable and flexible energy solutions.
