Model Predictive Voltage Regulation in Active Medium Voltage Distribution Grids

The renewable generation capacity, particularly solar and wind power installations, has increased steadily in the Netherlands over the course of recent years. Due to the local, small-scale nature of these power plants (compared to conventional power plants), a large share of this generation capacity is installed into the medium- and low-voltage...

Mechanically Storing Renewable Energy at a Residential Scale

Today, more and more households are generating their own solar power. This helps us to come closer to a circular economy, since less fossil fuels are required to meet our energy needs. However, excessively generated energy is often wasted, since transporting or storing it for later use is challenging. Lithium ion batteries provide a solution,...

Smarter energy sharing

This thesis proposes a product-service-system for Lens-Energie bv. Lens is a Dutch company that provides solar panels to renters in apartment buildings. Their current product benefits from the current net-metering legislation in the Netherlands. Since its is expected that this legislation will be changed in the near future, a new product is...

A user centred product-service system for efficient collective solar-power consumption

The production of solar power is one of the solutions to limit the emission of polluting gases. One of the characteristics of solar power is the discontinuous character of its activity. This can cause a heavy load on the energy grid, especially because most solar power is being produced when energy consumption of households is low. This can...