New research grant to create green industrial parks

GreenLab Skive is a unique, green and circular industrial park that, together with DTU and other technical universities, will develop and demonstrate methods to help solve the challenges posed by climate change that Denmark and the wider world face.

Three new research projects will now be tasked with developing solutions that will enable industrial businesses of the future to obtain energy from sustainable sources, to be based in clusters, and to share surplus resources.

The funding comes from a grant of DKK 20 million, which VILLUM FONDEN granted last year to boost a new national research and demonstration platform, managed day-to-day by GreenLab and DTU. The research projects constitute the second round of the donation. 

Ebbe Kruse Vestergaard is Research Director at GreenLab, and he explains:

“At GreenLab, we have defined a range of goals that serve as general guiding stars for the research projects run by GreenLab. These pertain to three different things. Firstly, which design principles are required for a green industrial cluster. Secondly, how best to operate a green industrial cluster that faces the obstacles associated with fluctuating energy flows, infrastructure, energy storage, etc. And thirdly, how we can best demonstrate the value of sector coupling—specifically the idea of thinking about energy across traditional silos.”

“Together with researchers and collaborative partners, we are constantly identifying challenges and obstacles we face as we seek to fulfil these goals. These challenges inform the research strands in each round of funding.”

Optimised electricity grid and dynamic CO2 emissions

In an applicant field encompassing fifteen projects, three made it through the eye of the needle with the assessment committee, which includes representatives from DTU, the University of Southern Denmark, Aarhus University, Aalborg University, and GreenLab. All three of the new research projects have their own, respective purposes.