Pick-up point and return: In front of Alsik Hotel, Nørre Havnegade 21, 6400 Sønderborg

State of Green will welcome the participants and set the scene for today’s programme

State of Green is a not-for-profit, public-private partnership from Denmark. We seek to foster relations with international stakeholders interested in discussing their challenges and bring into play relevant Danish solutions that enable the green transition.

Peter Markussen, Senior Director, Energinet

Energinet is the Danish transmission system operator, tasked to carrying out coherent and holistic planning, taking account of future transmission capacity requirements and long-term security of supply. Energinet is supporting eco-friendly energy generation and the development and demonstration of green energy production technologies.

Lunch will be served on the bus

District heating serves a vital role in the green transition, and the integration of renewable. As a virtual battery, the district heating network balances the energy system, when the wind is not blowing, the heating grid can support the supply, whilst the production can be accustomed. At Ewii’s Home of the Future, the visitors will see for themselves how private housing can support an integrated sustainable development.

Lars Bonderup Bjørn, CEO, EWII

The EWII Group is located in Denmark and is the Triangle Region’s local energy company, comprising commercial companies under the name of EWII and utility companies under the name of TREFOR. The Triangle Region in Denmark includes the municipalities of Vejle, Kolding, Fredericia, Middelfart and Vejen.

Nina Detlefsen, Chief Advisor, TREFOR

TREFOR is a utility company for the electricity grid, water and heating in the Triangle area of Denmark and for the electricity grid on Bornholm. They ensure with foresight and timely care that the Triangle area can take clean water, environmentally friendly district heating and well-functioning electricity network in the Triangle area and on Bornholm with an uptime of 99.996% for given every day.

Jesper Gadegaard, CEO, Home of the Future

The Home of the Future is a new-build house in Fredericia that serves as a concrete example of what consumption will look like when we go from central, fossil production of energy to getting the energy from renewable sources.

In the Danish town of Toftlund, a 85,000 m3 storage facility/28.000 m2 solar heating plant, designed by Ramboll, has been established. The sun is absorbed to heat water, which is then transported to a 200 million litre pit, for storage. It has a charging capacity of 18MW and a discharging capacity of 8MW. Here, the water is saved for district heating consumers to use during the autumn and winter season. The cost of heat in winter from the solar heating combined with the interseasonnal heat storage is competitive against the heat from gas boilers, due to economy of scale.

Anders Dyrelund, Senior Market Manager, Ramboll

Ramboll is a global engineering, architecture and consultancy company founded in Denmark in 1945