Power-Link, the Ghent University energy knowledge platform

Universiteit Gent, Power-Link | Wetenschapspark 1 | B-8400 Oostende [email protected] | www.power-link.ugent.be

Power-Link, Ghent UniversityEnergy Knowledge Platform


Power-Link, Ghent University

Founded in 2006 as centre for sustainable and renewable energy

• information spooling

• research coordination

• networking

• demonstration and research infrastructure

> embedded in Ghent University

> based in the GreenBridge incubator


Thematic focuses

• energy efficiencyo buildings

o industry ,for example: waste heat recovery

o mobility

• blue energy (offshore wind, wave & tidal energy)

• distributed generation, e.g. small and medium-sized wind turbines

• transition towards a low-carbon economy & technologies

• energy management systems

• control and management of electric power systems o Demand Side Management

o Virtual Power Plants


Research projects• initiation - facilitation - dissemination

• Flemish & European projects

Demonstration projects• GreenBridge science park

• monitoring - visualisation

Educational and societal projects• youth and science


Research infrastructure @ GreenBridge• Small Wind Turbine Field Laboratory

• microgrid / thermal grid in the GreenBridge demonstrator

• zero energy test building: E-Cube


Projects


‘Answers to the Carbon Economy’

• transition path towards a low carbon economy

• CO² reduction on 3 levels– business level

– B2B level

– business park level


Argus: scalable, multi-parameter webbased monitoring

• captation, processing, visualization and analysis of monitoring data

• focus on energy and environmental systems

• spin-off companyArgus Technologies (2012)


‘Empowering customers to save energy by informative billing’

• achieving measureable energy savings

• increasing awareness and motivation of consumers with respect to energy efficiency

• increasing trust between consumers and energy suppliers


D³O | Decongestion of the Distribution Network through Decentralized Storage

• research to inverter/battery combinations– optimisation of demand and supply of electricity

• demonstrator– programmable, real life, residential electrical grid

– research validation, workshops, hands-on sessions

• target group– end user, grid operator

– pv installers

– Providers of inverter/battery combinations


EVA platform ‘Electrical Vehicles in Action’

• living labs EV in Flanders

• large-scale load infrastructure platform– 220 charging stations, 440 connections, 71 loading ports

– 161 vehicles

• topics– proper geographical coverage for public loading ports?

– impact on the grid?

– user friendly payment system?


Increasing the penetration of renewable energy sources in the distribution grid by developing control strategies and using ancillary services

• Optimizing the penetration of renewable energy sources in LV and MV networks and providingancillary services

• Validation at 3 levels:– Simulation platform

– Lab tests

– Field trials


waste heat recovery by an 'Organic Rankine Cycle’

• optimizing electricity production and efficiency

• research on efficient small-scale systems– economic and technical valorisation


Cross-border cooperation and development of

competences

• West Flanders / Nord-Pas de Calais

• Thematic clusters: ICT & image, nutrition & health, textiles and new materials, transport & logistics and cleantech


Opening up the market for small and medium wind turbines

• Multidisciplinary analysis of LESTS factors– How? Strengthening of Legal framework

– Which? Economic model

– Where? Spatially embedded

– What? Technical obstacles and opportunities

– How? Socially supported

• In search of new potential locations– Agricultural areas, business parks


Contact

Lieven Vandevelde, director

E [email protected]

T +32 59 24 27 40W www.power-link.ugent.be

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