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Intelligent DC MIcrogrid Living Lab

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

CoverageDetailed public record
Named organizations5
System facts18
Sources reviewed4
Last researched2026-07-19

Aalborg University's iDClab was a 2014–2017 research program for residential and commercial DC microgrids. Its peer-reviewed living-lab paper describes a side-by-side 380-to-12 V DC apartment and 230 V AC reference apartment, ZigBee home controls, Kamstrup multi-utility metering, renewable generation, batteries, and hydrogen-based micro-CHP.

Research status
Research project finished in December 2017
Historical classification
Building
Reported capacity
See component specifications
Coordinates
57.01457, 9.98185
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Project delivery

Who was involved in Intelligent DC MIcrogrid Living Lab?

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

Organization

Aalborg University

Publicly named participant; role not specified in the recovered record [1]

Organization

Aalborg University / AAU Energy

Danish project lead and residential living-lab host [3][4]

Organization

Danish Council for Strategic Research

Project funder; university portal reports DKK 5,396,587 [3]

Organization

Kamstrup

Smart multi-utility metering-system supplier [4]

Organization

North China Electric Power University

Chinese project partner and industrial DC living-lab host [4]

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.

Storage
NA [1]
Project period
January 2014–December 2017 [3]
Reported Danish project funding
DKK 5,396,587 [3]
Residential DC buses
380 VDC, 48 VDC, 24 VDC, and 12 VDC [4]
AC comparison apartment
230 V, 50 Hz [4]
Industrial partner-lab buses
Two 750 VDC buses at North China Electric Power University [4]

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.

01

Advanced metering infrastructure

Kamstrup — OMNIA

Integrates electricity, gas, and district-heating meters so the energy-management system can coordinate whole-building energy use. [4]

02

Home-area communications

ZigBee

Low-bit-rate wireless devices communicate through a gateway to the building energy-management system. [4]

03

Micro-CHP research system

Model not publicly disclosed

Electrolyser, hydrogen storage, and fuel cell provide electricity and useful heat; commercial models are not disclosed. [4]

04

Renewable and electrical storage test assets

Model not publicly disclosed

PV, small wind turbines, and batteries are included in the laboratory architecture, but the paper does not provide fielded model numbers for each asset. [4][1]

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.

  • Storage

    Electrolyser produces hydrogen with excess of renewable energy to store until EMS requires heat or electricity [1]

  • Generation

    Solar PV [1]

  • Generation

    Whisper Wind Turbines [1]

  • Generation

    Micro-CHP based on fuel cells [1]

  • Experimental design

    Two fully functional residential sections—one multi-bus low-voltage DC and one conventional AC—were designed for direct efficiency comparison. [4]

  • Sector coupling

    The EMS architecture spans electricity, gas, and district heating and can choose between battery storage and hydrogen production during renewable surplus. [4]

  • Research scope

    The program studied design, modeling, control, coordination, communications, and management rather than documenting a commercial production microgrid. [3]

  • Disclosure gap

    The reviewed paper does not name PV modules, battery cells, DC/DC converters, fuel-cell stack, electrolyser, or central EMS software model. [4]

Provenance

4 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]
    Source

    et.aau.dk · Archived source · captured 2021-04-20

  3. [3]
    Intelligent DC Microgrid Living Lab

    Aalborg University Research Portal · Primary source

  4. [4]
    Intelligent DC Microgrid Living Labs — A Chinese-Danish Cooperation Project

    IEEE International Conference on DC Microgrids / Aalborg University · Primary source

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