Center Denmark

How we understand partnership

CD''s motivation is to bring continuity to research and development to accelerate the green transition towards an integrated energy system (electricity, heat and water) with 100 % renewable energy. To this end, we put a Trusted Data Sharing Platform at disposal for national and European collaborations and developers. Currently, CD provides a secure and reliable digital platform to universities, DSOs and private companies to share and exchange their data for R&D purposes.
We believe that the ERA-NET digital platform and CD can mutually benefit from interacting and collaborating. ERA-NET enables us to showcase our expertise to a broader audience on EU level and also share the experience we have from national projects and how to facilitate the digital journey.

What we offer

As a solutions provider for payment clearing, rating, and billing, nexnet is the market leader when it comes to implementing high-volume billing quickly and securely. Since our founding in 2000, we have specialized in running our customers complex finance processes and ensure high-level effectiveness. Costs savings of 30% and more have also convinced our customers to put their trust in nexnet’s solutions.
Thereby, our customers can concentrate on their core business while we handle increasing competitive pressure demands and regulatory requirements. Our central IT platform allows quick and easy adjustments of product and price as a reaction to changes in consumer
purchasing behaviors and provides valuable tools for reporting, statistics, and analyses.
Data centers in Germany and high-performance SAP and Oracle systems guarantee the highest level of performance and data protection.

• Data sharing platform
• level: business application
• interfaces: APIs,
• provision: data aggregation from various sources, sending and receiving data from/to partners
• TRL: 6, MRL: 6
• Cloud Infrastructure hosting (software as a service)
• level: business application
• interfaces: APIs, private dashboard, Web access
• provision: Partners can host their software in CD's cloud servers to run analysis and have access to energy data stored in CD's data-lake.
• TRL: 6, MRL: 6
• Energy Management systems
• level: business application
• interfaces: API, web access, mobile app
• provision: Certain appliances control, real-time information logs of the end-user energy usage
• TRL: 7, MRL: 7
• Electricity Market Data Analysis
• level: high level services
• interfaces: Web Access
• provision: CD provides analysis an forecast on the electricity market based on the historical production and consumption in Denmark for various types of generators and demands.
• TRL: 7, MRL: 6
• Flex-Offer Manager (FMAN)
• level: high level services
• interfaces: Web Access, API, Mobile App
• provision: Real-time management of collection of loads for aggregator users.
• TRL: 8, MRL: 6
• Flex-Offer Agent (FOA)
• level: high level services
• interfaces: Web Access, API, Mobile App
• provision: Generating, managing, and executing Flex-Offers originating from the following two kinds of Prosumer devices: off-the-shelf TP-Link HS110 smart-plugs and Cloud-IO controlled boilers and heat-pumps.
• TRL: 8, MRL: 6
• Flexible Load Simulator (FLS)
• level: high level services
• interfaces: Web Access, Simulation Tool
• provision: Large scale testing to emulate physical load.
• TRL: 6, MRL: 6
• Clamify
• level: high level services
• interfaces: Web Access, API, Mobile App
• provision: A building management system that is based on real-time occupants feedback to the system.
• TRL: 6, MRL: 6
• Building management units Middleware
• level: domain specific enabler
• interfaces: library
• provision: Enables the communication between different edge devices via gateway with the central controller algorithms.
• TRL: 6, MRL: 6
• Data-lake Access interface
• level: domain specific enabler
• interfaces: Web Access, VMs
• provision: Real-Time data analysis, post analysis of events based on the data.
• TRL: 6, MRL: 6
• Electricity Market Analyser
• level: domain specific enabler
• interfaces: APi, Visualisation
• provision: Correlation different datasets to help the electricity traders to plan their bidding strategy into the electricity markets (Nordpool)
• TRL: 6, MRL: 6
• Performance Analysis Evaluation in District Heating systems
• level: domain specific enabler
• interfaces: Simulation Tools
• provision: Heat Performance evaluation and analysis of buildings.
• TRL: 6, MRL: 6
• Power-To-X
• level: domain specific enabler
• interfaces: APi, We Access
• provision: CO2/price based control of heat pumps in the properties.
• TRL: 6, MRL: 6
• CTSM-R
• level: generic enabler
• interfaces: library
• provision: Continuous Time Stochastic Modelling for R used for optimisations and forecasting
• TRL: 8, MRL: 8
• Modelica (Multi-domain modelling language)
• level: generic enabler
• interfaces: Modelica software
• provision: Used as base for some of the modelling in-house software.
• TRL: 8, MRL: 8
• Restful APIs
• level: generic enabler
• interfaces: API
• provision: Enables the platform user to send and fetch data among various tools and storage locations in CD.
• TRL: 8, MRL: 8
• Kafka
• level: generic enabler
• interfaces: API
• provision: Enables the communication with the end-users control boxes.
• TRL: 8, MRL: 8
• Visulization Platform
• level: generic enabler
• interfaces: Web Access, APi
• provision: A comprehensive visualisation platform, that provides in-depth analysis of energy-usage and production of various demo-cases in Denmark.
• TRL: 6, MRL: 6
• Physical Servers
• level: physical component
• interfaces: SSH, APIs, HTTPS
• provision: Tools deployment, Post analysis of data.
• TRL: 8, MRL: 8
• Control Box
• level: physical component
• interfaces: APIs
• provision: Enables the users to control the box remotely via API.
• TRL: 6, MRL: 6
• Indoor Climate Sensors
• level: physical component
• interfaces: APIs
• provision: Reading the real-time sensor data using the APIs via the gateways.
• TRL: 6, MRL: 6

Pricing model

Some of our services are subscription-based where our clients will have access to their portal to perform a number of tasks. These include accessing and analysing real-case energy data that CD hosts from various stakeholders. The subscription fee varies depending on the type and number of services the client requires from CD.
CD also provides consultancy both to public institutions and commercial companies in their digital journey for choosing the right technologies to lower CO2 emissions and for deploying the right energy management systems, in some cases also to provide energy flexibility.

CD is a non-profit organisation. Therefore, the revenue generated from commercial activities is used to develop tools in-house and to finance further ongoing expenses.

What we offer in addition

We provide an incubator environment for academics and business including start-ups to try out their solutions and get support on their choice of technologies for their digital journey transformation. We also provide training on how to use some technologies for partners that don''''t have the resources and are not familiar with the right technologies.

As part of Center Denmark, we also have access to many research groups, industrial companies, and DSOs that are actively working in the energy sector. This also means we can facilitate the interaction between interested parties and connect them to the right groups. CD can also provide a platform for those interested in access to a rich pool of tools and software solutions developed and designed by the four Danish University partners (DTU, Arhus Aalborg and SDU).