New digital service makes it easier for companies to report on climate change

The platform especially helps small and medium-sized businesses navigate complex climate requirements and effectively reduce their CO₂ footprint.

A recently completed innovation project in the Danish energy cluster has led to the digital tool NIVI, which is freely available to everyone.

CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive) is a relatively new concept in Denmark. The EU directive sets new requirements for companies' reporting on climate and sustainability, and as early as 2024, large listed companies must document their efforts.

In 2025 and 2026, the legislation will follow for other and smaller companies - and NIVI can be a crucial tool for them in particular. The platform was developed based on the need for an easy-to-use tool, especially for SMEs, which often lack the necessary internal resources and skills to handle climate reporting on their own.

“We know that small and medium-sized companies in particular can experience the increasing requirements for climate reporting as a barrier that can be difficult to overcome. With NIVI, we have created a tool that makes it easy and intuitive for companies to navigate the complex reporting requirements, so they can focus on taking action and improving their climate footprint instead of struggling with technical details,” says Rune Loftager, partner at NIVI digital.

Result of innovation project
The NIVI platform was developed through an innovation project in close collaboration between Copenhagen Energy Partners and Oceanic Energy Services, which has resulted in the establishment of the company NIVI Digital. The project is facilitated by Energy Cluster Denmark and supported by the EU and the Danish Business Development Agency.

“With the launch of NIVI, we now have a user-friendly tool that can concretely help companies meet the increasingly stringent climate requirements. It is part of our efforts to make important tools such as climate accounting, LCAs and the like more accessible to companies of all sizes. This is an important step towards a more sustainable future, where companies across industries can take responsibility for their climate footprint,” concludes Rune Loftager.

The platform is verified by Det Norske Veritas (DNV), which helps ensure high accuracy and credibility in the results.

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Facts:
The innovation project NIVI IQ is supported by the EU and the Danish Business Development Agency. The project started in September 2023 and will continue until September 2024 with a total budget of DKK 1,156,300. The partners in the project are Copenhagen Energy Partners and Oceanic Energy Services Soft.

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If you want to make real progress in the green transition, focusing solely on technology is not enough.

That’s one of the key takeaways from DecomBlades – a project that has just been named Innovation Project of the Year for its groundbreaking work on recycling glass fibre from decommissioned wind turbine blades.

DecomBlades has tackled one of the wind industry's biggest headaches: how to recycle glass fibre in a way that creates real value and maintains material quality. And they’ve done it – not just as a lab experiment, but at scale. Recycled glass fibre is already being used in the production of new blades.

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"A single technology can’t do anything on its own – that’s why it makes no sense to focus only on pyrolysis, which is what we specialise in at MAKEEN,” says Irene Bach Velling Villadsen, project lead at MAKEEN Energy. “We had to take the entire value chain into account.”

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At Siemens Gamesa, Jonas Pagh Jensen, Head of Sustainability, sees huge value in the results:

“The potential here is massive – not just for us, but for the entire industry – because we now have a documented, scalable way to recycle glass fibre into new blades. We’ve received 40 tons of high-quality recycled glass fibre, which we’re now using to manufacture our 115-metre blades for Ørsted’s offshore wind project Greater Changhua 2b and 4 in Taiwan. This proves the technology works – in the real world and at full scale.”

The project brought together some of the most experienced and forward-looking players in the wind sector and was supported by the Innovation Fund Denmark.

Project partners in DecomBlades are Ørsted, LM Wind Power, Vestas, Siemens Gamesa, FLSmidth, MAKEEN Energy A/S, HJHansen Recycling Group, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).

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