Het project “In twee stappen naar een aardgasvrije en comfortabele Nederlandse woonomgeving” ontwikkelt een manier om de overstap naar aardgasvrije woningverwarming eenvoudiger, minder spannend, betrouwbaarder en beter te maken. Dat doen we door een “hybride” tussenstap, die een behoorlijke aardgasreductie …

Community energy can be conceptualized as a social movement, which aims to develop a sustainable, democratic, and localist energy system. Increasingly, community energy initiatives aim to develop citizen-led heating projects. District heating projects are characterized by costly investments, a substantial …

This study aims to check the performance of two distinct configurations system: a photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) system with an ice buffer storage tank figure [1] and a conventional PV system with an air heat exchanger on the back, figure [3]. The ice buffer storage tank is used to store excess heat from …

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Decentralised renewable energy production in the form of fuels or electricity can have large scale deployment in future energy systems, but the feasibility needs to be assessed. The novelty of this paper is in the design and implementation of a mixed integer linear programming optimisation model to minimise …

Renewable energy sources have an intermittent character that does not necessarily match energy demand. Such imbalances tend to increase system cost as they require mitigation measures and this is undesirable when available resources should be focused on increasing renewable energy supply. Matching supply …

At the University of Applied Science Utrecht we have been working on optimising the sustainable use of space for a long time. There are various reasons for this, such as the high costs per square meter, the shortage of space at peak times and the vacancy rate at off-peak moments. There are complaints …

The Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) sector is responsible for a large part of the total worldwide energy consumption, a significant part of which is caused by incorrect operation of controls and maintenance. HVAC systems are becoming increasingly complex, especially due to multi-commodity …

Residential electricity distribution grid capacity is based on the typical peak load of a house and the load simultaneity factor. Historically, these values have remained predictable, but this is expected to change due to increasing electric heating using heat pumps and rooftop solar panel electricity …

As a student of industrial product design I have gotten used to making and fixing everything myself. If I run into a problem or a product breaks, I try to solve and repair it. If I couldn’t do it yet, I'd just learn how to. This led me to build my own house on wheels at the start of 2020. The complete …