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| Company type | Government-owned corporation |
|---|---|
| Industry | Energy |
| Genre | Transmission system operator |
| Predecessor | Eltra, Elkraft System, Elkraft Transmission, Gastra |
| Founded | 2005 (2005) |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Peder Østermark Andreasen (CEO) |
| Services | Power and natural gas transmission |
| Revenue | 9.17BDKK (2009) |
| Owner | Government of Denmark (State ownership) |
Number of employees | 1150 |
| Subsidiaries | Eltransmission.dk A/S Gastransmission.dk A/S |
| Website | en |
Energinet is theDanish nationaltransmission system operator forelectricity andnatural gas. It is anindependent public enterpriseowned by the Danish state under theMinistry of Climate and Energy.[1] Energinet has some 1150 employees, and its headquarters are located inErritsø nearFredericia inJutland. The gas division is located inBallerup nearCopenhagen.
The main tasks are to ensure efficient operation and development of the national electricity and gas infrastructure as well as ensuring equal access for all users of the infrastructure.[2]
Energinet was created by a merger of power grid operators Eltra, Elkraft System and Elkraft Transmission, and by natural gas transmission system operator Gastra.[3] The merger took place on 24 August 2005 with retrospective effect from 1 January 2005.
Eltra owned the electricity transmission network west of theGreat Belt and was system operator there.[4] It was owned by 44 network companies there.[5] To the east of theGreat Belt there were two companies: the system operator Elkraft System and the transmission network company Elkraft Transmission.[4][6] They formed a joint organization and were owned byNESANET A/S [dk], KE Forsyningen,SEAS Transmission A/S [dk],NVE Net A/S [dk], Frederiksberg Elnet A/S, Hillerød Elforsyning, Helsingør Elforsyning, Roskilde Netvirksomhed, Nykøbing Sjællands El-Net and SK-Net A/S.[7]
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 High voltage grid of Denmark |
Energinet operates the 400 kV electricity transmission grid[8] and the gas transmission grid.[9] The company owns and operates also 132 kV[10] and 150 kV power grids ("Regionale Net") and theHVDCGreat Belt Power Link, and it is a co-owner of the power interconnections withSweden (Konti–Skan),Norway (Cross-Skagerrak) andGermany (Kontek).[11][12][13] A 700MWsubmarine power cable calledCOBRAcable to theNetherlands is planned withTenneT,[14][15] and a 1,400MW cable (Viking Link in 2022) to Britain is investigated withNational Grid, expected to cost DKK 15 billion.[16][17] Cobra and Viking were put on the EU "Projects of Common Interest" list in November 2015, along with the Krieger offshore wind turbine cable to Germany.[18] Of the high voltage power lines on land, 25% were laid as underground cables in 2014.[19]
Energinet has a 20% stake inNord Pool Spot AS (the largest electricity market in the world),[20] and, as of December 2012, 100% of the physical gas exchange Nord Pool Gas A/S.[21] It also owns afiber-optic communication network and agas storage facility, as well as a 20% stake[12] inEuropean Market Coupling Company, a Central-West European cross-border electrical power tradingjoint venture due to begin operations on 9 November 2010.[22]
Anelectrical consumption support scheme dedicated to sustainable electricity producers in Denmark is administered by Energinet.[23]
