DNV GL Netherlands B.V.

Driven by its purpose of safeguarding life, property and the environment, DNV GL enables organisations to advance the safety and sustainability of their business. DNV GL provides classification and technical assurance along with software and independent expert advisory services to the maritime, oil & gas and energy industries. It also provides certification services to customers across a wide range of industries. DNV GL, whose origins go back to 1864, operates globally in more than 100 countries with its 16,000 professionals dedicated to helping their customers make the world safer, smarter and greener.

For the energy industry, DNV GL unites the strengths of DNV, KEMA, Garrad Hassan, and GL Renewables Certification. DNV GL’s 2,500 energy experts support customers around the globe in delivering a safe, reliable, efficient, and sustainable energy supply. We deliver world-renowned testing, certification and advisory services to the energy value chain including renewables and energy efficiency. Our expertise spans onshore and offshore wind power, solar, conventional generation, transmission and distribution, smart grids & energy storage, and sustainable energy use, as well as energy markets and regulations. Our testing, certification and advisory services are delivered independent from each other.

DNV GL Netherlands will focus on the validation and testing of the project developments to enable their subsequent implementation at the three demo sites. Testing in DNV GL’s Flex Power Grid Laboratory will focus in the functional performance of the components, compliance with current standards as well as other reliability and security requirements defined for each of the demo sites.

DNV GL Portugal will focus on understanding the economic interest behind the concept and technologies associated with the demo sites. A cost-benefit analysis will be carried out, deviating from a typical smart-grid cost-benefit analysis of individual functionalities by taking into account the unique aspect which will be common to all proposed demonstration sites, i.e. the integration of different flexibility enabling technologies. Furthermore, DNV GL Portugal will enrich the technical scalability and replicability analysis (carried out by others) by an economic analysis.