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Center Denmarks Projects

As a Data Lake, Center Denmark actively participates in numerous projects, both domestically and internationally. We take immense pride in showcasing our dedication and hard work. On this page, you will discover the ongoing projects along with those that have been successfully completed.

CitCom.AI

CitCom.AI is a European testing and experimentation facility dedicated to the development of artificial intelligence (AI) in smart cities and communities. The project is organized around three super nodes: Nordic, Central, and Southern, focusing on energy, mobility, and the connection between citizens, infrastructure, and AI services, respectively. CitCom.AI offers both physical and virtual facilities where AI solutions can be tested in real urban environments. Center Denmark plays a crucial role in the Nordic super node network, supporting energy solutions and smart cities.

Duration: 01/2023 - 12/2027

Coordinator: DTU, IMEC

Partners: 33

Countries: 11

Funding scheme: Digital Europe

Budget: Total budget: 298 mio. DKK / CDK budget: 9.5 mio. DKK

RePUP - Real Time Performance Upgrade of Buildings

RePup develops, evaluates, and implements modular solutions for optimizing the district heating network. The project focuses on multi-story buildings and residential properties, where a Human-in-the-Loop solution optimizes the heating in each individual apartment based on quantitative data on temperatures, consumption, and CO2 content, as well as qualitative data on residents' perceived comfort. Center Denmark provides production and consumption data from the utility company.

Duration: 01/2023 - 12/2026

Coordinator: Climify ApS

Partners: 8

Countries: DK

Funding scheme: Innovation Fund Denmark

Budget: Total budget: 18,5 mio. DKK / CDK budget: 300.000 DKK

ELEXIA

ELEXIA aims to further develop and upgrade tools for planning integrated energy systems to achieve independence from fossil fuels. The project demonstrates its solutions at three different locations: Høje-Taastrup (Denmark), Bergen (Norway), and Sines (Portugal). Center Denmark plays a central role as a digital innovation hub, where we manage the digital infrastructure and data governance for the project.

Duration: 10/2022 - 10/2026

Coordinator: NORCE Norwegian Research Centre

Partners: 22

Countries: 8

Funding scheme: EU Horizon 2020

Budget: Total budget: 95 mio. DKK / CDK budget: 5,6 mio. DKK

Demo sites: Høje-Taastrup, Bergen and Sines

Digital Energy Hub

Digital Energy Hub (DEH) is an innovative platform in Denmark aimed at promoting the green transition within the energy sector through the use of new digital solutions. In the project, strategic partners identify specific challenges that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) work to solve by developing data-driven business models and technologies. Center Denmark contributes with digital tools, data, and testing facilities that support the development of these solutions.

Duration: 03/2022 - 03/2025

Coordinator: Center Denmark

Partners: 12

Budget: Total budget: 23 mio. DKK / CDK budget: 7,7 mio. DKK

ARV

ARV is a project that aims to create climate-positive circular communities where people can thrive for many generations to come. As the digitalization hub, Center Denmark will manage all the data from the project and therefore plays a key role in its development.

Duration: 01/2022 - 12/2025

Coordinator: Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Partners: 35

Countries: 7

Funding scheme: EU Horizon 2020

Budget: Total budget: 158 mio. DKK / CDK budget: 4,4 mio. DKK

EFFORT

The objective of this projects is to increase energy efficiency at Hirtshals Port through data driven analysis. Requirements for data forecasting, optimization of green electricity consumption, flexibility, grid capacity and services for electricity markets will be analysed along with possibilities for sector coupling at the port. Center Denmark provides the data platform used for collecting data and making it available for analysis and integrations.

Duration: 01/2023 - 12/2025

Coordinator: Aalborg University (AAU)

Partners: 9

Countries: DK

Funding scheme: Elforsk

Budget: Total budget: 13,7 mio. DKK / CDK budget: 1,7 mio. DKK

Demo site: Port of Hirtshals

HeatCheck

HeatCheck is a project aiming to develop AI-driven services for optimizing heating systems in apartment buildings. New data from the apartment buildings and the existing data from the district heating companies are to be stored at Center Denmarks data platform and facilitated to the partners developing the AI-driven services. Experiences from the FED project and Heat 4.0 are fed into this project to unlock the potentials in the district heating system for improved operation.

Duration: 10/2022 - 03/2026

Coordinator: Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

Partners: 10

Funding scheme: Innovation Fund Denmark

Budget: Total budget: 14,6 mio. DKK / CDK budget: 2,1 mio. DKK

MissionGreenFuels

Mission GreenFuels aims to make a significant contribution to climate targets by achieving a 70% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050. Center Denmark provides relevant data to the project participants, which also supports Danish research, innovation, and export potential within green fuels.

Duration: 01/2022 - 05/2027

Coordinator: Aalborg University

Partners: 60

Countries: DK

Funding scheme: Innovation Fund Denmark

Budget: Total budget: 200 mio. DKK / CDK budget: 600.000 DKK

COPPER

COPPER supports cities in the North Sea region in taking on the role of coordinators for local energy systems. The project positions the region as a frontrunner in the development of future flexible energy systems. It builds capacity in the participating municipalities through a digital toolbox that supports processes and decision-making. Center Denmark collaborates with Aalborg University (AAU) and Fredericia Municipality to develop a digital pilot on Fredericia’s power grid, where various scenarios are tested.

Duration: 10/2023 - 10/2027

Coordinator: City of Ghent

Partners 16

Countries: 5

Funding Scheme: Interreg

Budget: Total budget: 38 mio. DKK / CDK budget: 1,9 mio. DKK

Demo Sites: Dordrecht (The Netherlands), Bremen (Germany), Frecericia (Denmark), Varberg (Sweden), Ghent & Antwerp (Belgium)

BIPED: Building intelligent positive energy districts to fast-track climate-neutrality

BIPED is an EU-funded initiative that supports cities like Aarhus in the energy transition by developing and scaling positive energy districts, which are crucial for achieving climate neutrality in cities. Following the project's launch in Aarhus, BIPED’s tools and results will be shared with cities across Europe, with a focus on the network of climate-neutral cities. Center Denmark contributes by supporting the use of various data sources, helping partners develop new data-driven services for efficient resource and energy use.

Duration: January 2024 - December 2026

Coordinator: DTU (Technical University of Denmark)

Partners: 13

Countries: 6

Funding Scheme: Horizon Europe

Budget: Total Budget: 52 million DKK / Center Denmark Budget: 1.9 million DKK

SEEDS

The main objective of the SEEDS project is to promote the electrification of heating systems in buildings through an integrated approach that combines energy renovation with intelligent control of heating and cooling systems. SEEDS aims to reduce the heating demand of buildings and increase the flexibility of the building stock, enabling a greater use of renewable energy. This also contributes to stabilizing the power grid, and all these improvements are made in a cost-effective manner, both economically and from a lifecycle perspective. The project will demonstrate and develop relevant technologies at TRL levels 6-8.

Duration: January 2024 - December 2027

Coordinator: DTU (Technical University of Denmark)

Partners: 27

Funding Scheme: Horizon

Budget: 106.6 million DKK / Center Denmark Budget: 5.2 million DKK

BEGONIA

BEGONIA is an EU-funded initiative aimed at modernizing the use of digital information in the energy and transport sectors in Europe. The project focuses on developing advanced Operational Digital Platforms (ODPs) across borders. Over 2.5 years, a multidisciplinary team from various European countries will work on facilitating data transfer and developing early case studies to prepare for future projects in digital transformation.

Duration: January 2024 - April 2026

Coordinator: DTU (Technical University of Denmark)

Partners: 6

Funding: Digital Europe

Budget: Total: 29 million DKK / Center Denmark Budget: 3.6 million DKK

D4Heat

D4Heat (Digitalization for District Heating Efficiency and Affordability) focuses on optimizing district heating systems through digitalization. The project aims to leverage advanced data analysis and digital tools to enhance the efficiency of district heating networks. By integrating technologies such as AI and IoT, D4Heat can increase energy savings and reduce CO2 emissions, making district heating more economically sustainable and climate-friendly. The project is supported by EUDP and contributes to Denmark’s ambitions for a green transition in the energy sector.

Duration: 2024-2027

Coordinator: Danish Technological Institute

Partners: 11

Funding Body: EUDP

Budget: Total Budget: 7.52 million DKK / Center Denmark Budget: [not specified]

Cool Data

The Cool Data project aims to develop a flexible cooling and storage system, powered by artificial intelligence. The system stores renewable energy when there is plenty of it while allowing surplus heat from the servers to be used for district heating. Center Denmark's platform enables the project partners to test and demonstrate the project solutions and hosts the research models and software.

Duration: 09/2020 – 02/2024

Coordinator: DTU

Partners: 8

Funding scheme: Innovation Fund Denmark

Budget: Total budget: 18,3 mio. DKK / CDK budget: 1 mio. DKK

Ebalance-Plus

The project aims to increase energy flexibility of distribution grids, predict available flexibility, increase distribution grid resilience and design and test new ancillary models to promote new markets based on energy flexibility. These objectives allow unlocking the energy flexibility market in distribution grids to support energy prosumers and electric operators.

Duration: 02/2020 – 01/2024

Coordinator: DTU

Partners: 15

Countries: 10

Funding scheme: EU Horizon 2020

Budget: Total budget: 9,5 mio. DKK / CDK budget: 255.000 DKK

Top-Up

Coordinator: Climify Aps

Partners: 7

Countries: DK

Funding Scheme: EUDP

Budget: Total budget: 3,4 mio. DKK / CDK budget: 260.000 DKK

Innovationskraft: Danske klynger for viden og erhverv 2021-2022

The grant has been awarded to Denmark's 13 business clusters, where Center Denmark has participated in activities under Energy Cluster Denmark's grant. This has been done through access to relevant data, project applications for innovation activities, and workshops on the use of data and data-driven innovation in the energy sector.

Duration: 2021-2024

Coordinator: Energy Cluster Denmark

Funding Scheme: Danish Board of Business Development

Budget: Total budget: 21.000.000 DKK / CDK budget: 250.000 DKK

FIRE

The energy production from solar and wind rises and falls more than traditional energy sources as weather conditions change. As more renewable energy is integrated in the future, the effect of fluctuating production will increase significantly. It challenges both security of supply and the stability of energy supply.

Varighed: 09/2019 - 12/2023

Coordinator: Energy Cluster Denmark

Partners: 8

Funding Scheme: European Regional Development Fund

Budget: Total budget: 2,8 mio. DKK / CDK budget: 100.000 DKK

Nordic Energy Efficient Mortgage (NEEM)

The NEEM Hub is part of the Energy Efficient Mortgages Initiative and aim is to increase lending to energy renovations in the Nordics, by promoting energy renovations. The projects main goal is to develop a three-step guide for banks to offer customer-specific energy renovation recommendations based on data-driven building energy performance modelling results. Center Denmark’s role is to provide the project with high quality data on building consumption and weather from various sources.

Duration: 07/2021 - 05/2023

Coordinator: Copenhagen Economics A/S

Partners: 9

Countries: The Nordic Countries

Funding scheme: EU Horizon 2020

Budget: Total budget: 11 mio. DKK / CDK budget: 540.000 DKK

Heat 4.0

HEAT 4.0 aims to create the next generation digital platform for the district heating industry. It is a high-tech platform that creates synergy between the design, operation, and maintenance of district heating systems by integrating the latest technologies and research knowledge into one comprehensive product: HEATman. The result is a maximized economic and ecological effect.

Duration: 01/2021 - 08/2022

Coordinator: NIRAS

Partners: 18

Countries:

Funding Scheme: Innovation Fund Denmark

Budget: Total budget: 6,3 mio. DKK / CDK budget: 270.000 DKK

Flexible Energy Denmark (FED)

Center Denmark is a key partner in the Flexible Energy Denmark project. The project focus on digitalization and making energy consumption flexible. Digital solutions will unlock flexibilities in the Living Labs. During this project, the basic principles were developed for a data lake with AI-tools and solutions for the participating Living Labs.

Duration: 04/2019 - 04/2023

Coordinator: EWII

Partners: 24

Countries: DK

Funding scheme: Innovationsfonden (30 mio. DKK)

Budget: Total budget: 43,6 mio. DKK / CDK budget: 4,4 mio. DKK