Today, the Association of European Distributed Energy Resources Laboratories (DERlab e.V.) has accepted four new members at its general assembly in Roskilde, Denmark. DERlab e. V. was founded in 2008 as an non-profit association of independent world-class laboratories for the grid-integration of decentralised power generation. Since then, the twelve members have, for example, prepared an international white paper for the standardisation of grid inverters and developed interconnection requirements for decentralised energy resources (DER) as well as testing procedures for power system services.
“DERlab aims to cluster the best European DER laboratories from each EU member state and is now starting to involve institutes from other continents as well”, says Dr. Philipp Strauss, the immediate past spokesperson of DERlab´s board. “The new members will bring all their valuable technical expertise to the network”. While VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland provides multifunctional environments for researching the technical solutions and products for distributed energy systems, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Reliability, Security and Trust at the University of Luxembourg will bring expertise in the field of reliability and security of information and communication technology, especially addressing vulnerability of electricity networks. The new member from Belgium is K.U. Leuven for the new knowledge institute EnergyVille, that was recently founded by K.U. Leuven and Vito for innovative research in green energy and energy technology.
The fourth new member is Sandia National Laboratories from the USA . It is DERlab´s first non-European member institute and conducts research to integrate emerging energy technologies into new and existing electricity infrastructures. “It is planned to further intensify the international co-operation under the umbrella of ISGAN, the International Smart Grid Action Network that was recently founded. DERlab is ready to support and to join a new international research facility network that is under preparation at the IEA”, announces Philipp Strauss.
