The area intended for the village consists of 70 building sites. The houses will be constructed in line with sustainable building practices, and the inhabitants will finance the cost themselves, thereby avoiding debt. The houses will be designed to be off-grid. Contact online >>
The area intended for the village consists of 70 building sites. The houses will be constructed in line with sustainable building practices, and the inhabitants will finance the cost themselves, thereby avoiding debt. The houses will be designed to be off-grid.
Factory for eelgrass insulationFertile Soils intends to purchase a 10,000 m2 disused factory building situated on the neighbouring ground to help residents develop businesses and thereby create jobs for the inhabitants of the village and hopefully for other people in the area as well.
There are already a lot of ideas for businesses, including plans to start a new, ground-breaking fishing guild, zero-waste production of prefabricated straw houses and modular tree houses, which will also provide housing options for those who do not wish to build something themselves.
Furthermore, there are proposals to start production of eelgrass insulation, mass and flex ovens with a by-production of electricity and heat, ventilating windows, flue gas scrubbers and much more.
Taking responsibilityAt first, it sounds like any rural district''s dream, but it is more than just that. It is about taking responsibility and taking your life in your own hands, says one of the founding fathers of the scheme.
-By going off-grid, we become more aware of our consumption of energy and resources and then we take responsibility. By buying this factory we also take responsibility for our own work life and we prove that there is a large potential to create life and employment opportunities in rural Denmark, says straw house builder and primary school teacher Steen Møller.
Well-known technologyThe technical solutions are based on well-known technology. The electricity will be primarily derived from solar cells on the roof while the warm water will come primarily from solar thermal collectors.
The rain water is collected from the surface of the greenhouse where after it is purified and can be used as drinking water. The sewage from each houses is stored in a reservoir underneath the house wherefrom it is absorbed by the plants in the greenhouse: tomatoes, grapes, cucumbers, melons etc.
The heating comes from a mass oven covered by a type of tiles known as TEG-cells that produce electricity from the heat-cold effect – approximately 1kwh per day. The consumption in each house is very low and the technologies are a combination of high- and low-tech solutions.
-In the media, sustainability is discussed at an unprecedented level, but concrete action is seriously lacking. We have discussed sufficiently, we have read enough books, now we want to walk the talk and give the power to the practitioners and let them come up with a solution for a good, sustainable life, continues Steen Møller.
-There are still a few outstanding formalities in relation to Syddjurs Municipality but we are hoping that everything will be solved over the next few months. We have a good cooperation with the public authorities and we have experienced a big interest in the project from a wide range of people but there is room for more in the project, he adds.
The BESS will be online by the end of 2024. It will provide ancillary services and frequency control services to Danish transmission system operator (TSO) Energinet.
Better Energy also said the BESS presents the opportunity to store excess renewable energy at peak generation times to increase the availability of that renewable energy on the grid. However, it didn’t provide details of whether the BESS would charge directly from the solar park or just share the AC grid connection.
Denmark has been relatively quiet for grid-scale energy storage projects, though an 18MWh thermal energy storage project did start commissioning late last year. Virtual power plant (VPP) companies including Nuvve and Flower are active in the country’s ancillary service market primarily through managing EV networks.
Better Energy is active in solar project development in and around its home market of Denmark with projects also in Poland, Sweden and Finland, covered extensively by our sister site PV Tech.
It will be managed via an energy management system (EMS) from Hybrid Greentech and will be optimised with existing solar panels and EV charging at a location south of the airport’s terminals.
The Danish Technological Institute also worked on the project, which is part of the EU-funded Alight programme aimed at showcasing sustainable aiports via sustainable fuels, e-mobility energy storage and waste heat recovery.
The question of finding sustainable energy sources goes back as far as the time when humans first discovered fire. Now renewable energy is a global question. But it’s a question that may have a local answer.
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