For over a decade, PowerCon has been a flexible, innovative, and trustworthy partner for electrical engineering, design, construction, installation, and commissioning, covering all aspects in-house.
Mission And Vision
Our mission is to design, build, and implement innovative, flexible, and scalable power conversion solutions and to remain the go-to partner for customers world-wide, especially within wind and shore power.
With a vision to push the technological boundaries within power conversion, PowerCon is proud to work with sustainability, energy transition, electrification, and maritime decarbonization every day, aligning with the UN Sustainability Development Goals (7, 9, 13, 15). We want to assist in the development and future-proofing of the energy and maritime electrical infrastructure as we see this as critical in improving sustainability and mitigating climate change.
Core Values
- Responsibility: we pursue a high level of responsibility and commitment relates to all our processes as we are fully aware of what it means if our products don’t perform.
- Customer focus: we come up with the most cost-effective solutions that meet each customer’s individual needs.
- Quality consciousness: we always have the highest possible quality in mind as we believe that makes the real difference “out in the field”.
- Environmental consciousness: we strive to use smart and innovative solutions to improve sustainablity.
- Innovation: we always incorporate the latest technology and try to think outside of the box in how we put our solutions together.
Partner Group
Kim Brøndum Larsen
Partner & CEO
Kim is a founding Partner of PowerCon and has since the beginning been a main system designer. He oversees all electrical designs besides functioning as the company’s CEO, underlining the deep technical level that characterizes the company at all levels for which he also oversees all skill, training, and tool development.
Allan Holm Jørgensen
Partner & CTO
Allan is a founding Partner of PowerCon and has been a main system designer. His primary focus is hands-on involvement in testing and commissioning of all projects. As technical lead, he also drives innovation efforts to push the technological boundaries of developing improved solutions.
Peter Castberg Knudsen
Partner & CFO
Peter is a Partner in PowerCon and has played a central role in all sales and commercial efforts. He has been a main driver of developing the company within the shore power segment and today he remains hands-on involved in project negotiations, management, and execution, besides overseeing the company’s finances.
Our Company
PowerCon is an international, engineering and manufacturing company headquartered in Denmark who specializes in electrical power conversion, particularly in the form of shore power for ships at berth.
The Beginning
Founded in 2009 with strong ties to the world-famous Danish wind power industry, PowerCon found early success in supplying the wind turbine industry with its power conversion solutions.
Shore Power Expansion
Around 2014, PowerCon started focusing on shore power for the maritime industry when an opportunity was seen to simplify this technology and make it more compact yet still efficient, resulting in lower costs and better return on investments. Our strong focus on flexible and innovative shore power solutions that meet customers’ individual needs has made PowerCon a leading supplier in the industry, supplying its modular and efficient solutions to ports around the world.
Our Team
Today, PowerCon’s team consists of over 170 employees with the majority based at our new facility in the historical town of Hobro, Denmark. The new building consists of 2500 m² (27000 sq ft) office space with an additional 3500 m² (37700 sq ft) for production, assembly, and warehousing, equipped with overhead gantry cranes as well as high and low voltage grid connections so we can test our full range of products in-house before they are shipped out.
PowerCon’s team consists largely of highly skilled and experienced hardware and software developers, engineers, and electrical system designers who with an innovative and dynamic approach develope state-of-the-art converters and shore power solutions. PowerCon also collaborates with a range of highly skilled subcontractors who help ensure that only the best materials and components are utilized in our solutions.
The PowerCon Way
Providing us with a leading edge, PowerCon was founded on doing things “the PowerCon way” which is rooted in our core capabilities:
- To cover all disciplines in-house from start to finish.
- To provide fast and predictable project development and delivery.
- To showcase robust, state-of-the-art solutions with proven reliability.
- To minimize assembly time and eliminate errors by focusing on the interaction between design and production
- To catch unexpected challenges early and minimize on-site installation time by verifying solutions in-house.
- To remain flexible and innovative to provide cost-effective solutions that maximize Return on Investments.
- To present pragmatic, easy-to-understand solutions in a complex field.
- To remain at the forefront of the latest technology and requirements.
- To be independent from big industry players and sub-suppliers to freely design the best solutions possible.
Innovation and R&D are also strong part of PowerCon’s DNA. We therefore continue to be involved in various development projects based around power conversion in our attempt to develope the solutions of tomorrow.
Certifications
PowerCon is ISO 9001 certified and also has a AAA-credit rating, underlining our well-structured and quality-focused processes and procedures throughout the organization. This is also reflected in our HSEQ initiatives and related zero-tolerance. PowerCon is constantly working to improve these efforts and is currently also working toward a ISO 45001 certification.