Renewable energy systems are subject to the strong variability of their corresponding energy sources. Because current energy converters are insufficiently accommodated, they fail to yield optimal energy efficiency and economic reliability. Energy uptake will be optimized both numerically and experimentally by establishing variability-adapted systems that amongst others consider the interaction between the various electrical, mechanical and ...
Existing renewable energy systems do not capture enough energy from the source, which often varies quickly. By taking into account these variations in the control, the system can anticipate and react in an optimal way. In this project, a new control system is developed which allows to take into account these variations, leading to an increase in the energy yield.
The main objective of the CHESTER project is the development and validation of an innovative system that allows for energy management, storage and dispatchable supply of many different RES by combining the electricity sector with the heat sector. This is done by combining an innovative power-to-heat-to-power energy storage system, the so called CHEST (Compressed Heat Energy Storage) system with Smart District Heating thus leading to a very ...
The overall aim of sEEnergies is to quantify and operationalise the potentials for energy efficiency (EE) in buildings, transport and industry, combining this bottom-up knowledge with temporal and spatial analyses to develop an innovative, holistic and research-based EE-modelling approach going beyond current state-of-the-art science based knowledge and methodologies. Because the changes in one energy sector can contribute to impacts in ...
The GR3 project will promote the use of grass and other herbaceous residues from landscape management as a resource for biogas production in regions of Belgium, Italy, Germany, Denmark and Portugal. The energy potential of these residues remains underutilized across Europe. Barriers are insufficient awareness and acceptance of suitable technologies for the mowing. storage and anaerobic digestion of grass residues, absence or lack of ...
Russia only recently developed a renewable energy policy. In 2009, Russia’s Energy Strategy for the first time set the goal to achieve 4.5 percent of the total electricity produced and consumed on the basis of renewable energy sources by 2020. In 2013, the Russian government implemented the first support scheme in the form of an annual tender to stimulate investments in new renewable capacity. If the support scheme will be fully implemented, ...
This research project is the first attempt to explain the governance systems’ shortcomings in current trade, climate and renewable energy governance. The focus is on EU-China governance relations. Due to economic and environmental globalization and the rise of major developing economies, the governance of trade, climate and renewable energy has become increasingly complex and interrelated. Moreover, the swiftly evolving governance relations ...
New policies, such as the ambitious climate targets, will drasticly increase the penetration of electric vehicles and alternative forms of mobility such as e-car sharing, e-buses, e-cargo bikes, etc. Ensuring sufficient collective parking and charging infrastructure for a wide range of e-mobility services is becoming a huge challenge in our cities. Especially now that parking options in public spaces are further limited, semi-public hubs for ...