Partners and Participants

Technical University of Denmark (DTU) - Department of Electrical Engineering

The Center for Electric Power and Energy (CEE) is part of the Department of Electrical Engineering at DTU. CEE’s research addresses one of the most important global societal challenges, namely the urgent and necessary transformation of the current carbon intensive energy system towards a cost-efficient and reliable one, powered by 100% renewable energy. CEE has a staff of 95 persons, 30 of which are PhD students, working in different fields of electrical energy systems, spanning from electrical machines, to interconnected energy systems, digital and distributed technologies. Therefore, the Center has the right mix of competences and experimental infrastructure necessary for the successful execution of the ACDC project. The focus areas covered by CEE are expected to increase further in the coming years, since the Danish climate goals are ambitious: the goal is for Denmark to be 100% free of fossil fuels in 2050. Electricity will be the main energy carrier and is expected to double and cover up to 70% of the total Danish energy system in 2050.

Participants: Mattia Marinelli; Thomas Meier Sørensen; Andreas Thingvad; Lisa Calearo; Kristian Sevdari; Simone Striani.

Nissan

Nissan is the seventh largest automaker in the world, and has a strong knowledge and experience with EVs. The Nissan Leaf is an all-electric car that was launched in 2010 and now is available in 46 countries. The Nissan Leaf is the world's all-time best selling highway-capable all-electric car, with global sales of over 400,000 units since December 2010.

Participants: Kenta Suzuki; Keigo Ikezoe; Yuki Kobayashi; Marcin Rakowski; Bob Bateman.

Circle Consult

Circle Consult is a company with 20+ engineers, providing services and products in the electronics industry, working for customers as Danfoss and Kamstrup, and has through the years been involved with smart meter designs as well as wireless power charging motor drives and complex power supplies for state-of-the-art particle research (physics).

Since 2013 Circle Consult has been addressing the focus of EV chargers as it has been clear that at some point the infrastructure would need a charger with a refined setup that could balance loads in the grid as well as concurrent production fluctuations. Circle Consult has recently for a customer developed a smart power rail, that includes power meter, apps for IOS and Android that can provide customer instant prices and hence enabling many of the same features as would be expected to be part of a smart meter.

Participants: Lauge Rønnow; Andreas Sørensen; Oliver Lund Mikkelsen; Mikkel Skov Nielsen; Mick Kirkegaard; Martin Kjær Svendsen.

El-Net Øst

ENØ owns and operates grid and station facilities including a meshed 60 kV network with 16 60/10 kV substations, 91 10 kV feeders and approximately 1000 10/0.4 kV substations. The electricity system Bornholm is connected to Sweden by a 60 kV cable. ENØ is actively working on transforming the electrical system being based on 100 % renewable energy sources, taking advantage of new emerging technologies e.g. EVs and stationary storage, and retain security and quality of supply. ENØ has, as subsidiary of BEOF (Bornholms Energi & Forsyning), been involved in several smart grid activities, and just to mention a few: EDISON (Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles); EcogridEU (market mechanisms for balancing capacity); Ecogrid 2.0 (aggregation of flexibility) and ACES (benefits by large scale electric vehicles integration).

Participants: Hans Henrik Ipsen.

Vestas

Vestas is the energy industry’s global partner on sustainable energy solutions. Vestas design, manufacture, install, and service wind turbines across the globe, and with 101 GW of wind turbines in 80 countries, Vestas have installed more wind power than anyone else. Through our industry-leading smart data capabilities and 86 GW of wind turbines under service, Vestas uses data to interpret, forecast, and exploit wind resources and deliver best-in-class wind power solutions. From 2017 Vestas changed its vision to become the global leader in sustainable energy solutions. This requires a global approach to sustainability that encapsulates the three core concepts: environmental, social, and economic sustainability. For Vestas, the concept of continuous improvements in these areas forms the baseline for how Vestas works. In the R&D department we are responsible for achieving such vision through technological advances in storage, solar, flexibility units such as Electric vehicles (EV) and data utilization.

Participants: Karthikeya Balladi Raghuchandra.