The district heating sector in Denmark is working together in order to ensure research, development, testing and training in a sector that annually makes a turnover of more than 16 billion Danish kroner. In the future there will be a huge export potential in district heating solutions which are high on the wanting list for countries like China and India.
This is an important step for the district heating sector. In the longer term, there is a huge potential in both climate profit and of creating jobs, says Anders Hanberg Sorensen, who is rector of the Engineers´ School in Aarhus and the new chairman for the district heating Center of Development.
District Heating Leadership
Denmark is a world leader within district heating and all its major cities are supplied with district heating. This fact must be utilized in order to boost the export and therefore it is important to round up the players.
»The District Heating industry has come an unbelievably long way on isolated achievements, but if we are to move further ahead it must happen united, and that is what the new center of development must ensure. It will rub off on the opportunities to develop new solutions and sell our solutions in other countries where it can be valuable to offer a complete concept in stead of standalone technologies,« says Anders Hanberg Sørensen.
In addition to the export opportunities the aim is also very much to develop new solutions for the benefit of the Danish system. Gradually as renewable energy will become an even larger part of the Danish energy supply, there will amongst other be a need to be able to store energy. This is only one of the challenges which the new center of development must be a part of finding solutions to.
»We will boost the system, we have in this country. And if we can use Denmark as a test station, we also have a golden opportunity to increase our export. The object is e.g. to minimize the energy loss to the consumers and to find solutions to storage of the energy. We can be a part of that,« says Anders Hanberg Sørensen.
Source: borsen.dk