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South Korea has a strong focus on smart city and big data solutions that can make cities more intelligent, liveable and sustainable. Therefore, a delegation group of South Korean government officials, business representatives and researchers visited Denmark to explore the innovative digital solutions that can address cities’ energy, environment and climate-related challenges.

A new evaluation of the 10 years of public investment in green energy technology development documents both positive effects and return.

Three electric cars at Roskilde Festival’s Food Court ensure ample electricity to cope with peak loads without using generators.

Last week two high level delegations from Australia and New Zealand visited Denmark to learn more about the Danish approach to a number of political and business-related topics. To gain further insight into the way Denmark is working towards carbon neutrality by 2050, the delegations visited State of Green’s showroom, House of Green.

Energy storage is an important part of the energy transition. “Whitebook Energy storage technologies in a Danish and international perspective” aims to inform about the status, needs and perspectives for energy storage technologies, and sets out milestones to guide decision makers, industry and research communities on how to trigger storage as an instrument to achieve the climate goals.

A new Danish-Indian project will enable the power grid to sense and compensate for the loss of electricity and fluctuating input from green energy sources.

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Malaysian and Danish water professionals have entered into a new water management partnership. The collaboration will assist Malaysia in increasing its security of water supply and reducing high water losses.

New Danish water lab will scrutinise whether computer models and algorithms are really saving water. This might have worldwide impacts for water efficiency and security.

Northern European Energy Ministers and the European offshore wind industry gathered in the Danish town of Esbjerg yesterday to discuss how they jointly can ensure the objective of creating a Silicon Valley for offshore wind in the North Sea is realised.

The City of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Malmö Port and CPH City & Port Development have entered into a cooperation to get more green solutions in the Port of Copenhagen and to limit emissions from cruise ships. The first step is the design of an onshore power supply in the North Harbour.

With the State-of-the-Art awards, partnerships are promoted as leading innovators for sustainable development. Applications are open until 30 June.

According to a group of leading banks, limiting CO2 emissions from the shipping industry is an urgent challenge that cannot happen fast enough. The banks want to implement a climate score to put pressure on shipping companies, writes the Danish newspaper Politiken.

New calculations from DTU indicate that there are both economic and environmental benefits from exploiting straw for biofuel for heavy transport instead of for district heating, and there should consequently be focus on developing this technology.

Demand for renewable energy has made its impact on global employment as it now employs 11 million people worldwide.