Europe / Island & remote community

Bornholm Island

Organizations, planners, suppliers, equipment, controls, and reported system specifications—with source-level citations.

CoverageDetailed public record
Named organizations17
System facts8
Sources reviewed3
Last researched2026-07-19

Bornholm served as the EcoGrid EU living laboratory for real-time, price-responsive demand and renewable integration. The demonstration ran from 2011 to 2015 across the island distribution system and involved a 17-member utility, research, and technology consortium.

Research status
EcoGrid EU demonstration completed in 2015; Bornholm remains an active energy test island
Historical classification
Community
Reported capacity
See component specifications
Coordinates
55.16043, 14.86688
Evidence note: “Every company” cannot be proven from public material alone. This page lists every organization found in the recovered record and reviewed sources, preserves unknown roles, and explicitly marks undisclosed controller or equipment details.

Project delivery

Who was involved in Bornholm Island?

17 publicly identified organizations. Where a recovered source named a participant without explaining its work, the role remains explicitly unspecified.

Organization

Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT)

Project partner [3]

Organization

Bornholms Energi & Forsyning (BEOF)

Host distribution utility and demonstration operator [3]

Organization

Eandis

Project partner [3]

Organization

EDP Distribuição

Project partner [3]

Organization

Elia

Project partner [3]

Organization

EnCT

Project partner [3]

Organization

Energinet.dk

Transmission-system and project partner [3]

Organization

Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN)

Project partner [3]

Organization

European Commission

Seventh Framework Programme funder [3]

Organization

IBM

Technology partner [3]

Organization

Landis+Gyr

Metering and technology partner [3]

Organization

Siemens

Technology partner [3]

Organization

SINTEF Energy Research

Project partner [3]

Organization

Tallinn University of Technology

Research partner [3]

Organization

Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

Research and project partner [3]

Organization

Tecnalia

Project partner [3]

Organization

TNO

Research partner [3]

System evidence

Reported capacity and specifications

Values can describe different project phases or components. Source citations are attached to each figure so discrepancies remain visible.

KW Wind
29000 [1]
KW Gas/Diesel
34000 [1]
Archived island peak load
63 MW [1]
Archived generating fleet
14 diesel generators (34 MW), two steam units (25 MW and 37 MW), 35 wind turbines (29 MW), and two biogas turbines (2 MW) [1]
EcoGrid project period
March 2011 to February 2015; EU project 268199 [3]

Controls and hardware

Equipment and controller details

Manufacturer and model are shown only when a source names them. Generic descriptions are not converted into guessed product assignments.

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Demand-response control

Model not publicly disclosed

EcoGrid used real-time electricity pricing and flexible-load control across participating customers; the public consortium page does not identify one island-wide controller model. [3]

Recovered detail

Additional technical notes

Concise system facts recovered from the historical project record. Treat these as historical unless a newer primary source confirms them.

  • General

    Peak load: 63 MW [1]

  • Generation

    Diesel, steam, CHP, wind, biogas [1]

Provenance

3 sources

Primary owner, government, university, supplier, and engineering sources are preferred. Archived references preserve claims whose original pages moved or disappeared.

  1. [1]
    Recovered Microgrid Projects record

    Internet Archive · Archived source · captured 2021-04-20

  2. [2]
    https://building-microgrid.lbl.gov/bornholm-island

    building-microgrid.lbl.gov · Archived source · captured 2021-04-20

  3. [3]
    EcoGrid EU

    Bornholms Energi & Forsyning · Primary source