Bothnia Green Energy Pilots
Pilot 1: Excess Heat
Excess heat is an untapped energy source found in many areas of our society. A transition towards a hydrogen economy entails even more excess heat. How can we make the best out of this resource? Utilizing excess heat better make us more energy efficient and is one of several solutions necessary to reach our energy and climate goals. Many solutions to utilize excess heat exist, and new innovative solutions are coming. In this pilot we want to contribute to implement different solutions by helping matching companies having excess heat with companies having the right technology solution.
Pilot 2: Power to Talent
Power to Talent is a talent attraction and development program concept under development for the energy sector in the Kvarken region. Its purpose is to help the industry to have talented professionals available for future development and growth, for example by encouraging students to consider careers in the energy sector.
The concept includes developing a strategy and a roadmap that ultimately will lead to piloting a program to address the talent shortage in the energy sector in the Kvarken region.
The program is a collaborative effort between energy companies in the region, and it will also involve educational institutions and small and medium-sized companies. Its goal is to be a mechanism that will contribute to attracting, training, and retaining skilled professionals, ultimately enhancing the competitiveness of the energy sector.
Photo: Jonas Westling.
Pilot 3: DC-networks
Nowadays, both production and consumption of electricity are increasingly based on direct current, which is then converted to alternating current only for transmission, and then rectified again to direct current before the point of consumption. In our pilot, we are investigating on what scale there could be opportunities to omit the alternating current phase in order to transfer the energy as only direct current between the production unit and the consumption.
