From Problems to Potentials: The Urban Energy Transition of Gruž, Dubrovnik

IIn the challenge for a sustainable society, carbon-neutrality is a critical objective for all cities in the coming decades. In the EU City-zen project, academic partners collaborate to develop an urban energy transition methodology, which supports cities in making the energy transition to sustainable lifestyles and carbon neutrality. As part of...

The ENergy Roof

This report describes the development of the ENergy Roof: a new concept for the Nul-op-de-Meter (NoM) renovation of single family dwellings in the Netherlands. The ENergy Roof consists of innovative technology, namely a solar assisted heat pump (SAHP) connected to photovoltaic solar panels that operates as evaporator (PV-DX). Furthermore the...

Creating the Business Case for the Zero Energy Refurbishment of Commercial Buildings

Net zero energy is already an ambitious target for several buildings, especially since the DIRECTIVE 2010/31/EU that requires increasing the number of nearly zero-energy buildings. The existing commercial building stock needs to be included, in order to achieve the 2020 EU environmental targets. The main barriers of zero-energy refurbishment of...