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EcoGrid wins European Sustainability Award

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By State of Green | [email protected]
15 June 2016

- This is big. It is overwhelming. We are happy – and we are very, very honoured on behalf of Bornholm. This awards also goes out to the 2,000 families from Bornholm, who were the backbone on the EcoGrid EU-project.
Says Betina Haagensen, vice president in Bornholm Energy & Utilities, immediately after she Tuesday night was handed a Sustainable Energy Award in Bruxelles by among others, the EU-commissioner for Energy & Climate, Miguel Arias Cañete. 

The EU Sustainable Energy Awards are given to the year’s best energy projects for their efforts in using innovative solutions to create a more secure, efficient and green energy production and consumption.

- Related news: Smart Energy Project, EcogGrid 2.0, is launched Monday

Research- and development director Jørgen S. Christensen from the Danish Energy Association are happy for the Bornholm project and their award.
- A big congratulation from here, especially to the many electricity customers on Bornholm, who have been engaged in EcoGrid EU. Together with the remaining project participants, the population of Bornholm has developed useful knowledge on how we in Denmark, as well as globally, can handle the future energy systems in an intelligent way.Now we have to continue the good collaboration in the light of EcoGrid 2.0, and I am looking forward to this” says Jørgen S.Christensen from Danish Energy Association, who is the project manager for the newly started EcoGrid 2.0.

Approximately 1,000 electricity customers on Bornholm are making their heat pumps and electricity heating available for the EcoGrid 2.0 to develop smart management. If it is successful to move electricity consumption from times of high pressure on the electricity grid, it would make the total electricity system more efficient. Others who are part of the new project are Bornholms Energy & Utilities, Insero, Technical University of Denmark, Krukow, Copenhagen Business School, Uptime-IT, IBM and 2+1. 

- Solution: ECOGRID.DK

It is the 10th time the EU Sustainable Energy Awards is presented. The Award is a part of the EU Sustainable Week, focusing on energy savings and the transition towards sustainable energy.

Source: Danish Energy Association 

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