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title: "Municipality of Fredericia pilots a virtual energy community in Fredericia, Denmark; 15-fold increase in green hydrogen production"
sdDatePublished: "2026-04-29T21:58:00Z"
source: "https://www.interregnorthsea.eu/sites/default/files/2026-04/COPPER%20Case%20Study%20-%20Fredericia.pdf"
topics:
  - name: "energy industry"
    identifier: "medtop:20000261"
  - name: "renewable energy"
    identifier: "medtop:20000257"
  - name: "infrastructure projects"
    identifier: "medtop:20001245"
  - name: "environmental policy"
    identifier: "medtop:20000423"
  - name: "industrial production"
    identifier: "medtop:20000360"
locations:
  - "Denmark"
---


Municipality of Fredericia pilots a virtual energy community in Fredericia, Denmark; 15-fold increase in green hydrogen production

COPPER Case Study - Antwerp

Case Study
How the Municipality of
Fredericia is piloting a
virtual energy community
to electrify its industry
With
funding
from
the
European Union through the
COPPER
initiative,
the
Municipality
of
Fredericia
will pilot a virtual energy
community
capable
of
turning its local industry
renewable with a 15-fold
increase in green hydrogen
production.

CHALLENGE
As it aims for climate neutrality by
2050, Fredericia has ambitious plans
to renewably power its large-scale
industry.
This presents a number of challenges.
Space is limited within the city, so
solar and wind energy must be
provided from neighbouring areas.
To power large-scale industry on-
demand, much of this will need to be
converted into green hydrogen,
requiring a 15-fold increase in H2
production from 20MW today to
300MW in 2030. This transition will
have a significant impact on the day-
to-day health of Fredericia’s grids.

Working with Aalborg University,
Fredericia will pilot a virtual energy
community, modelling how to move
and manage sufficient renewable
power to electrify large scale industry
through the local grid.
With support from Center Denmark,
this modelling and data will be fed
into a visualisation tool for power
flows around Fredericia, to help the
municipality understand their local
energy system and develop more
accurate local energy action planning.
APPROACH
20MW
300MW
1GW
Current green
hydrogen
production in
Fredericia
Planned green
hydrogen
production in
Fredericia by 2030
Long-term target for green
hydrogen production

OBJECTIVES
Fredericia will prepare one of Europe’s first virtual
energy communities purpose-built to support
heavy industry through green hydrogen
The pilot will enable Fredericia to assemble
relevant local energy system actors and determine
the best organisational models for industrial,
municipal, and DSO stakeholders
Using the visualisation tool built by Center
Denmark, Fredericia will have a powerful virtual
tool to enhance their future local energy action
planning, central to the Municipality's industrial
climate strategy
Prepare a virtual energy
community for large scale
industry
Establish new energy system
partnerships
Improve capacity for local
energy action planning
Learn more by contacting contact@coppercities.eu
In Fredericia Municipality, our ambition is to be “Green in
World Class”. This requires innovative companies in
addition development of our energy infrastructure. In
Fredericia we will in the future consume a significant
amount of electricity for our PtX companies and energy
industries.
Chairman for Climate, Energy and Environment, Municipality of Fredericia
Tommy Rachlitz Nielsen