A new building typology for the changing society: The usage of modular architecture and mixed buildings to aid the Dutch housing shortage

This thesis explores and analyses the usage of modular architecture and mixed buildings and their role in solving the Dutch housing crisis. The Dutch housing market is in a crisis due to various reasons that can be solved partially in the design process and partially by regulation changes. The mixing of production and living has become more...

Large-Scale Setpoint Tracking Controller for Co-regulation of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations: Coordinating Charging with Energy Market Dynamics

This research explores the feasibility of building a large-scale setpoint tracking controller for the co-regulation of Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations, aiming to coordinate charging with energy market dynamics and minimize the error between a power setpoint and the aggregated consumption of charging stations while capitalizing on...

Strategic Market Entry for Energy Aggregator Firms in the Netherlands: A qualitative study exploring potential business strategies and business models and their viability for aggregators in the Netherlands

A profound change is occurring in the Dutch energy system and significant growth in energy production from renewables can be observed. This requires flexibility solutions to balance the demand and supply of electricity. As described by the European Union in the Clean Energy Package, aggregators have the important responsibility to provide this...

A Price-Dynamic Model of Flexibility in the Electricity Market of the Future

To match supply from intermittent renewable energy sources (RES) with demand, it is proposed in literature to introduce flexibility in the electricity market of the future. Flexibility can be provided by energy storage, demand response and cross-border transmission. In this thesis flexibility is modeled explicitly through the price mechanism of...

Real Time Market Based Control of Flexible Distributed Energy Resources

Advancements in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has enabled the possibility to utilize the flexibility offered by responsive assets in a better way by employing Demand Response (DR) schemes. This thesis analyzes the performance of one such DR scheme developed at TU Delft called Forecast mediated Market Based Control...

The participation of greenhouses in the redispatch market for congestion management on the electricity grid: Judging the redispatch market based on greenhouse grower specific characteristics

The growing share of renewable electricity generation poses a balancing challenge on the electricity grid and thus increases probability of for congestion on the electricity grid. On the supply side, flexibility can be built into the system. One option for a market to avoid congestion is the redispatch market, which is the way of solving...

Flexibility services by a community microgrid: Quantifying the value of flexibility services by a community microgrid in the context of the Dutch electricity sector using Schoonschip as case study

The volatile production of renewable energy sources is often considered a key issue in future sustainable energy systems. Drawing on microgrid research, we argue that the potential synergy between microgrid energy management and provision of flexibility services to the wider grid could be further explored. In addition, the trade-off between cost...

Flexibility as foundation of Sustainability: Lifecycle focus as a process approach towards 'Evolving Buildings' in our 'City of Tomorrow

Our society and economy are constantly changing. In spite of this the demands and wishes of users also changes. Most of the current building stock is developed as mono-functional buildings to fulfil the demand at a particular moment. They are not designed for the lifespan in which they are functional. Because of their shortcomings in...