ELES is a Slovenian electricity transmission system operator. With a professional approach, know-how and advanced technology, ELES has been providing safe, reliable, and uninterrupted electricity transmission throughout Slovenia and across the borders for more than 90 years.
As the energy landscape is changing very fast, ELES is strengthening its research and innovation activities and cooperation with international partners in the areas that will be of key importance for the success of company operations in the future. ELES participates in numerous international projects, in which partners aim to find solutions to the most troubling issues in the electricity system. Recognizing the interdependence between different industries, they have started also cross-sectoral integration in the field of e-mobility, gas, and heat.
Sweden
| EHP - Active National Association | DHC+ | Association
Energiföretagen Sverige (Swedenergy) represents 200 members with some 400 companies in Sweden that produce, distribute, sell and store electricity, district heating and cooling. Pernilla Winnhed is the CEO of the organization. Monica Karlsson, CEO at Halmstads Energi och Miljö, is the Chairman.
Energiforsk – The Swedish Energy Research Centre
Sweden
| DHC+ | University / Research Institute
The Swedish Energy Research Centre is a leading-edge R&D company in the field of sustainable development consisting of large parts of Swedish energy research and development. Our overall aim is to coordinate and conduct the Swedish industry’s joint research and development in order for new knowledge to create public awareness and value for our stakeholders.
The institute is a wholly state-owned, non-profit scientific institution financed on a per-project basis through the execution of project development contracts won following international and national competitive biddings. Today, the institute has 89 employees, of which 84 with higher educations qualifications, 17 PhD (in various fields). Development of the energy system and relations within require the acquisition of new knowledge and competences by all the actors in the energy sector and state administration, as well as the education of citizens. Education and provision of information is becoming the institute’s increasingly significant activity, which requires the continuous professional training of our experts and their active participation in educating others.
Belgium
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EnergyVille unites the Flemish research institutes KU Leuven, VITO, imec and UHasselt for research on sustainable energy and intelligent energy systems. Its researchers deliver expertise to industry and cities on energy efficient buildings and intelligent networks such as smart grids and advanced heat networks.
ENGIE is a global energy player and an expert operator in the three businesses of electricity, natural gas and energy services. The Group develops its businesses around a model based on responsible growth to take on the major challenges of energy’s transition to a low-carbon economy: access to sustainable energy, climate-change mitigation and adaptation, security of supply and the rational use of resources.
Belgium
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Euroheat & Power is the international network for district energy, promoting sustainable heating and cooling in Europe and beyond.
We are a non-for-profit association headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, which unites the district energy sector. Our members come from over thirty countries around the globe and include national district heating and cooling associations, utilities operating district energy systems, industrial associations and companies, manufacturers, universities, research institutes and consultancies active in the sector.
Our research addresses the greatest challenges facing us in the future: people need health, energy, well-functioning political and social systems and an intact environment. These are complex questions, and we are seeking the answers in the interaction between many different disciplines. In so doing, our research work embraces three major themes: regions fit for living in, diversity as a life-enhancing feature, a healthy society.
To undertake research is to challenge conventional ways of thinking and to transcend limitations. Our open enterprise culture and flat organisational structure allow this investigative spirit to develop in the best possible interdisciplinary way, and with curiosity, enthusiasm, courage and perseverance we highlight problems from all possible angles and thereby arrive at exceptional solutions.
The aim of our work is to improve the future life of people. We often develop concrete solutions for regional problems which can then be applied elsewhere. We continually strive to open new paths with top quality research work, geared to the needs of people.
We are linked to other research networks all over the world and have partners in more than 50 countries on five continents. We collaborate with international organisations such as the Alpine and Carpathian Conventions, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) along with several space agencies.
MĂĽnster University of Applied Sciences was founded in 1 August 1971 after the merger of public and private schools of construction and engineering and vocational training institutions.
Over the years, MĂĽnster University of Applied Sciences has evolved into a practice-oriented, international and interdisciplinary university of applied sciences. Teaching staff and students contribute equally to the successful transfer of scientific findings to practice. This pays off: our establishment is now one of Germany’s largest and most successful universities of applied sciences.
Finland
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Finnish Energy (ET) is one of the most important branch organisations, whose opinions are of great value in national and international policymaking and in the public debate. It aims to promote use of district heating and electricity as a solution to environmental problems and to meet the demands of higher energy efficiency.
The Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI analyses the origins and impacts of innovations, including the short- and long-term developments of innovation processes and the impacts of new technologies and services on society. On this basis, Fraunhofer ISI is able to provide its clients from industry, politics and science with recommendations for action and perspectives for key decisions. The expertise of the institute is founded on scientific competence as well as an interdisciplinary and systemic research approach.
Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute Europe GmbH was founded in Berlin on 26 June 2014 to promote technology development, strengthen international interaction and exchange technologies and experiences. Its research fields include direct current grid and direct current cable, Smart distribution grid, energy storage, power electronics, cyber physical system, intelligent measurement, etc.
Founded in 1983, Halmstad University is an independent university offering about 40 degree programmes and 200 courses in exciting, cutting-edge areas. It provides education and research in three key areas: Information Technology, Innovation Sciences, and Health and Lifestyle.
The HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen is a German state university in Lower Saxony. The university combines six faculties with more than 6000 students in three cities: Hildesheim, Holzminden and Göttingen.
HAWK’s research priorities are: laser and plasma technology, rural areas: social, economic and structural development prospects and, sustainable production and use of biogenic raw materials. The latter research area includes the research group “Sustainable Energy and Environmental technology (NEUTec)” which, among other topics, focuses on applied research and development in the field of energy technology and process engineering, waste management, as well as, environmental technology with a focus on: efficient increase of energy supply systems, decarbonisation of district heating systems and integration of RES, optimisation and integration of thermal storage, modelling and simulation of district heating systems, optimisation of biomass technology, solid biofuels and thermal processes such as pyrolysis and hydro-thermal carbonisation, as well as, life cycle analysis, sustainability and energy and climate protection management.