Energizing Change

A roadmap to emission free energy production & distribution in Northwest Europe

Student report (2023)

Authors

M. van der Waal Architecture and the Built Environment
S.C.J. van Rees Architecture and the Built Environment
M. Echtai Architecture and the Built Environment
S. Hosie Echeverri Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

R.J. van der Veen Teachers of Practice / U - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
L. Qu Spatial Planning and Strategy - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2023 Max van der Waal, Sanne van Rees, Marh Echtai, Stephan Hosie Echeverri
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Published Date

21-04-2023

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

With the current emissions and disasters due to climate change, the energy transition towards a sustainable and climate resilient future of Northwest Europe is now more important than ever. The fi rst steps have been made, but this transition is happening too slow and in an insufficient and uncollaborative manner. This research studies the spatial implications of the energy transition and aims to construct a framework that helps to accelerate the process and make it more efficient and socially just. The methods used for this are data analysis and research by design, combined with scenario building, by investigating and designing the case study of the province of South-Holland within the context frame of Northwest Europe. The results of this report show an integrated spatial vision on the energy transition on multiple scales. Additionally, it provides a strategic framework that consists of policies, organizational structures and physical interventions, both in space and time, that are structured in a catalog. This proposal helps accelerate the process of the energy transition, to be able to build on a sustainable future for energy production and distribution