About

The DTU-TotalEnergies Excellence Centre for Clean Energy (DTEC) is a new research and educational initiative that aims to speed up the development of critical energy technologies. The centre is part of DTU, located at the DTU Risø campus near Roskilde in Denmark.

The purpose of DTEC is to conduct research and develop technology in clean energy with a particular focus on wind power generation. DTEC will develop and demonstrate world-class technology solutions within, e.g., offshore wind, hybrid systems and green hydrogen technologies.

2024, the hybrid power plant facility, Risø Hybrid Power Plant, was inaugurated. The plant integrating wind, solar, batteries, hydrogen, and power electronics technologies is a crucial part of DTU’s research into a more sustainable energy supply and an essential tool in the work to develop and test new technologies before they are scaled up.

©Mikal Schlosser — Anders O. Bjarklev, President of Technical University of Denmark, and Marie-Noëlle Semeria, Chief Technology Officer of TotalEnergies

DTEC couples world-leading expertise in wind and energy systems of DTU with TotalEnergies’ global energy presence and targets in clean energy development

Work Programmes

Work programme 1

Advanced Clean Energy Research

DTEC executes impact-driven research. DTU’s world-leading expertise in renewable energy is focused under DTEC on solving research challenges inspired by real projects. Working with TotalEnergies technical staff, DTU researchers identify opportunities to advance science and engineering for a broad range of applications in clean energy. DTEC already has research projects underway in several areas, including offshore wind energy, hybrid power plants, thermal storage, solar photovoltaics, and grid services/integration – with projects in additional focus areas in development.

Work Programme 2

Clean Energy Technical Services

DTEC provides clean energy technical services. Through technical services, existing knowledge and technical solutions are used to support near-term needs for the current portfolio of TotalEnergies clean energy pro-jects in development and operation. This in-volves a number of activities including:
• Software training and development services
• Software tool development
• Instrumentation and measurement campaigns
• Technology evaluation and testing
• Consulting services and expert advice

Work Programme 3

Hybrid Power Plant Facility

DTEC demonstrates and validates new clean energy innovations. The Risø HPP is a DTU and TotalEnergies jointly developed facility – integrated to existing DTU test facilities at the Risø campus. Phase I is focused on AC-connected electrical hybrid power plants with wind turbines, solar PV, battery storage and generation/load emulation capabilities.

Work programme 4

Clean Energy Training and Innovation

DTEC trains the future clean energy work-force.Training programmes are developed that target proficiencies needed for new hires, managers, engineers transitioning from other sectors, and even technical specialists. Innovation programmes provide DTU students and staff an opportunity to get involved and work on ideation for solutions to real-world technical challenges.

Risø Hybrid Power Plant

Get an overview of the Risø Hybrid Power Plant

Get an insight into what the hybrid power plant does

Projects and Activities

Colleagues at DTU are welcome to join DTEC projects and activities if you’re interested in the research areas above.

The DTEC Centre is located at DTU Risø campus in Roskilde

Organisation

DTEC is established as a centre for research, innovation and education at DTU and is funded by TotalEnergies. Its headquarters are located at the DTU Risø Campus.

DTEC is led by Head of Centre Gregor Giebel from DTU Wind and Energy Systems. A joint DTU-TotalEnergies steering committee oversees the centre‘s planning and operation.

As a strategic partnership, programmes under DTEC involve technical staff both at DTU and TotalEnergies. DTU staff lead and manage projects and work with TotalEnergies staff to ensure the transfer of knowledge for impact to real-world projects.

Scientific Directors

DTEC research activities are overseen by the Scientific Committee composed of Scientific Directors at DTU and TotalEnergies. The committee leads the development of collaboration roadmaps for DTEC research and technology development activities.

The DTU directors are:

Wind energy: Nikolay Dimitrov
Hybrids, storage and grid: Kaushik Das and Oscar Saborío-Romano
Power-to-x and hydrogen: Henrik Lund Frandsen
Education and training: Hamid Sarlak

Outreach

Oops, this feature requires cookies

To view the content, you must change your cookie consent to allow functionality cookies

Get in touch

For press related inquiries, please contact DTU's press officer:

Tel: +45 45 25 78 78
Email: presse@dtu.dk

Opinion

100% renewable energy possible with existing technology

There is enough renewable energy, and we have the technology to harvest it. The challenge is how to connect the technologies and distribute the energy when needed. We do not require a new miracle technology that can produce energy for us.

Press release

Clean energy at the core of DTU and TotalEnergies collaboration

DTU and TotalEnergies have agreed to set up a collaboration that will lead to the establishment of a centre of excellence within the field of wind hybrid systems.