For over a decade, PowerCon has established itself as a flexible, innovative, and trustworthy partner for electrical engineering, design, construction, installation, and commissioning; covering all aspects within software, hardware, mechanics, electronics, and related fields.
Mission And Vision
Our mission is to develop, construct, and implement smart, 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 of pushing the technological boundaries in the name of improved power conversion, PowerCon is proud to be working with sustainability, energy transition, electrification, and maritime decarbonization every day in an effort do our part in working towards 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 foundation been the electrical lead. He is responsible for all development of power electronics systems and test systems besides functioning as the company’s CEO, underlining the deep technical level that characterizes the company at all levels. He continues to lead training and skills development within programming, processors, controllers, and various other technical tools used throughout the organization.
Allan Holm Jørgensen
Partner & CTO
Allan is a founding Partner of PowerCon and is responsible for the overall system design. He also remains a key part of testing and commissioning all projects and remains to have a strong focus for pragmatic solutions that solve real-life challenges. As the technical lead, he also drives innovation and R&D and keeps pushing the company and the technological boundaries to keep developing improved solutions.
Peter Castberg Knudsen
Partner & CFO
Peter is Partner in PowerCon and responsible for all sales and commercial aspects. Despite his managerial role, he remains very hands-on and involved in the projects from a project management perspective. Peter’s background is in mechanical engineering, but he has obtained substantial knowledge within electrical engineering as well. Especially within shore power, he has been the driver of developing the company’s business, competencies, and knowledge.
The Company PowerCon
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.
Beginnings
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.
Expanding and Shore Power
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 the customers’ individual needs the best way possible makes PowerCon a leading supplier in the industry. To this day, PowerCon continues to be a front runner within shore power, supplying its modular and efficient solutions to ports around the world.
Pursuing Better Sollutions
Lastly, a strong part of PowerCon’s DNA is also innovation and R&D, i.e. continuously developing better performing solutions that are more cost-effective within our fields of expertise. PowerCon therefore continues to be a strong partner in various development projects based around power conversion.
This approach also ensures that PowerCon keeps pushing to develop and improve the technical solutions, trying to develop the solutions of tomorrow. This is clearly seen from the growth that PowerCon has experienced, especially within shore power, since its foundation.
PowerCon’s 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 specialists who with an innovative and dynamic approach develop 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.
Capabilities and 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.
The PowerCon Way
Providing us with a leading edge, PowerCon was founded on the fundamental idea of doing things “the PowerCon way” which is rooted in our core capabilities of:
- Covering all disciplines in-house, from design to commissioning, so we know the complete product lifecycle.
- Providing fast and predictable development and delivery.
- Getting customers in front of robust, state-of-the-art technologies and products that have proven reliability.
- Focusing on the interaction between design and production to minimize assembly time and eliminate errors.
- Verifying solutions in-house to catch unexpected challenges early and minimize on-site installation time.
- Remaining flexible and innovative to provide cost-effective solutions to maximize Return on Investments.
- Focusing on pragmatic, easy-to-understand solutions in a complex field.
- Remaining at the forefront of the latest technology and requirements to be as innovative as possible.
- Remaining independent from big industry players and subsuppliers so PowerCon can freely work with whoever we see fit to deliverer the best solution possible.