Energy cooperatives are beginning to expand their role from stimulating small-scale electricity production to developing local energy systems, including cooperatively owned energy storage solutions. However, many technical, social and financial obstacles are encountered in this process. It is as yet …

Contribution to the conference: International Conference on New Pathways for Community Energy and Storage, 6-7 June 2019 ABSTRACT The community renewable energy is often seen as the way to address the societal challenge of energy transition. Many scholars foresee a key role for community energy in accelerating …

In this paper we investigate laypersons’ valuation of historic buildings, their experiences of thermal comfort in those buildings and contrast this with their views on the appropriateness of energy efficiency measures. This paper presents four case studies of medieval churches in Groningen, Netherlands. …

The energy transition in everyday life : about epistemic rights and responsibilities in Local Energy Initiatives

The 'AgroCycle' project investigates whether a cooperation of farms can become self-sufficient in energy and fertilization by using manure and organic waste streams for the production of energy, green fuel and green fertilizers by means of anaerobic digestion (AD). In the project, the project partners …

New technologies or approaches are being widely developed and proposed to be deployed in real energy systems to improve desired objectives; however, supporting decision making processes to select best solutions in terms of performance and efficiently following cost-benefit analysis require some sort …

Naar aanleiding van een aantal workshops met inwoners en een groep uit het bedrijfsleven van Lopikerwaard zijn er een tweetal rapportages opgemaakt. Deze rapportage bevat een stukje verslaglegging en reflectie over de resultaten.

Met het project Samen Besparen hebben de gemeente Assen, de provincie Drenthe, Actium, i-Routes en de Hanzehogeschool Groningen een gezamenlijk lange termijn doel voor ogen gehad: het verduurzamen van een ‘robuust GGW-gebied’ (een gebied waarin de leefbaarheid onder druk staat en gebiedsgericht werken …