The energy knowledge platform Power-Link is a joint initiative of AG Port of Ostend and Ghent University, located in the science park Green Bridge in the port of Oostende. As a knowledge partner wants Power-Link with its university partners to become a West Flemish science platform on sustainable and renewable energy and raise awareness of rational, reductive and alternative energy. As a network partner, the DHE platform in the current, innovative and creative nature of the new production and consumption energy, creating a research platform with its own high-tech environment, in particular the Green Bridge site Power-Link was the energy knowledge platform accepted the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), a financial support tool that focuses mainly on improving convergence, enhancing economic competitiveness, creating jobs and strengthening the sustainable internal cohesion in European regions in .