STRAPSETT 2040: Strategic Transition Pathways towards Sustainable Energy Technologies for Telangana: A Participatory Backcasting Approach

With the increasing Green House Gas emissions around the world, adoption of sustainable energy technologies is beginning to take a prominent role. As a part of its 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, India has been getting more ambitious in its targets for reducing the emissions intensity of GDP. Both at the central as well as state governments,...

The sustainable energy advice market and its impact on public sustainable energy policy-making: Designing a framework and a case application for the Netherlands

Sustainable energy advice is provided in a market in which sustainable energy (SE) consultancies, such as the Energy Research Institute of the Netherlands (ECN), provide SE research for policies and public policy-makers demand for research. However, the Sustainable Energy Advice Market (SEAM) and the way in which the SEAM’s impact on SE public...

Re-oil Coast: An algae-based oil production and recreation coastal development

District Heating project development, a fragile business: Towards new collaboration and business models

An exploratory research into the role of business models and collaboration mechanisms in district heating project development. District heating is one of the main solutions of decarbonising the built environment, however it is only thinly researched and implemented. A generic collaboration model of district heating project development in the...

Strategic Niche Management of Biogas technologies in the Netherlands

Local sustainable energy companies and municipal involvement: Designing a framework for municipal involvement

How can municipalities be helped in choosing their level of involvement in a local sustainable energy company? This research investigates how municipalities can be helped in choosing their level of involvement in a local sustainable energy company. It aims to know which different choices municipalities can make in deciding on their involvement...

SOPRA - Sustainable off-grid power for rural areas

Increasing the energy efficiency of glass façades.

Design of a sun shading system which is optimized to generate as much energy as possible. This has been done by calculating the optimal size and positioning of the slats. The user also played a central role in the design process. Not only the design of the slats is innovative, also the way they are connected to the glass facade. This is done by...

Efficient urban planning in new energy era: The approach of urban renewal by premise of large-scale GHG reduction through a case study in Rotterdam

Introduction There is almost unanimous agreement among scientists that climate change is a fact. Burning fossil fuels as the conventional energy sources are the problem of global warming. Nowadays energy and climate are like two coin sides??problems, are confronting knotty conditions especially lying on economic dependency on fossil fuels and...