power-link, the ghent university energy knowledge platform
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Universiteit Gent, Power-Link | Wetenschapspark 1 | B-8400 Oostende [email protected] | www.power-link.ugent.be
Power-Link, Ghent UniversityEnergy Knowledge Platform
Universiteit Gent, Power-Link | Wetenschapspark 1 | B-8400 Oostende [email protected] | www.power-link.ugent.be
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
Universiteit Gent, Power-Link | Wetenschapspark 1 | B-8400 Oostende [email protected] | www.power-link.ugent.be
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
Universiteit Gent, Power-Link | Wetenschapspark 1 | B-8400 Oostende [email protected] | www.power-link.ugent.be
Research projects• initiation - facilitation - dissemination
• Flemish & European projects
Demonstration projects• GreenBridge science park
• monitoring - visualisation
Educational and societal projects• youth and science
Universiteit Gent, Power-Link | Wetenschapspark 1 | B-8400 Oostende [email protected] | www.power-link.ugent.be
Research infrastructure @ GreenBridge• Small Wind Turbine Field Laboratory
• microgrid / thermal grid in the GreenBridge demonstrator
• zero energy test building: E-Cube
Universiteit Gent, Power-Link | Wetenschapspark 1 | B-8400 Oostende [email protected] | www.power-link.ugent.be
Projects
Universiteit Gent, Power-Link | Wetenschapspark 1 | B-8400 Oostende [email protected] | www.power-link.ugent.be
‘Answers to the Carbon Economy’
• transition path towards a low carbon economy
• CO² reduction on 3 levels– business level
– B2B level
– business park level
Universiteit Gent, Power-Link | Wetenschapspark 1 | B-8400 Oostende [email protected] | www.power-link.ugent.be
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)
Universiteit Gent, Power-Link | Wetenschapspark 1 | B-8400 Oostende [email protected] | www.power-link.ugent.be
‘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
Universiteit Gent, Power-Link | Wetenschapspark 1 | B-8400 Oostende [email protected] | www.power-link.ugent.be
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
Universiteit Gent, Power-Link | Wetenschapspark 1 | B-8400 Oostende [email protected] | www.power-link.ugent.be
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?
Universiteit Gent, Power-Link | Wetenschapspark 1 | B-8400 Oostende [email protected] | www.power-link.ugent.be
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
Universiteit Gent, Power-Link | Wetenschapspark 1 | B-8400 Oostende [email protected] | www.power-link.ugent.be
waste heat recovery by an 'Organic Rankine Cycle’
• optimizing electricity production and efficiency
• research on efficient small-scale systems– economic and technical valorisation
Universiteit Gent, Power-Link | Wetenschapspark 1 | B-8400 Oostende [email protected] | www.power-link.ugent.be
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
Universiteit Gent, Power-Link | Wetenschapspark 1 | B-8400 Oostende [email protected] | www.power-link.ugent.be
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
Universiteit Gent, Power-Link | Wetenschapspark 1 | B-8400 Oostende [email protected] | www.power-link.ugent.be
Contact
Lieven Vandevelde, director
T +32 59 24 27 40W www.power-link.ugent.be