EnergyLab Nordhavn - New Urban Energy Infrastructure

The project will utilise Nordhavn as a live laboratory for future smart-energy technologies, innovative business models and new Operational solutions on all scales - components, buildings, grid infrastructures and system level - and provide basis for design and dimensioning of the energy infrastructure of future sustainable dense low-energy cities. The project addresses key challenges of the future smalt energy system: Development of a coherent flexible energy system (electricity/thermal/transport) with novel
technical solutions like energy storage by variable district heating temperatures, dynamic grid topology configuration and more integrated markets where infrastructures are closely interconnected and operationally co-optimized - enabling flexibility for integration of more renewables with stochastic nature (wind, solar etc.). Re-thinking energy infrastructure design and dimensioning methods to accommodate e. g. new low heat demanding buildings, new dynamic demand patterns from price responsive prosumers and fuel-shift technologies. Development of energy technologies providing grid services by smart cost-effective controllers and associated new business models and user interactions.