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EBECS Tool

There are many ways to make a house more energy efficient: insulate better, install a heat pump ... The EBECS algorithms of VITO/EnergyVille provide specific advice based on the size of the house and the energy consumption of the residents. Bank-insurer KBC, Cozie’s …
Buildings and districts

STORM: Self-organising Thermal Operational Resource Management

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STORM tackles energy efficiency at district level. It aims to demonstrate that, thanks to a smart District Heating & Cooling (DHC) networks’ controller, energy savings can reach up to 30%. In that perspective, the project partners will develop a controller based on self …
Thermal networks

ECODISTR-ICT: Integrated decision support tool for retrofit and renewal towards sustainable districts

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The ECODISTR-ICT project develops an integrated decision support tool that facilitates decision making on the retrofitting and renewal of existing districts and its composing buildings. It connects the main decision makers in urban district transformation programs, acting …
Buildings and districts

Buildings as material banks (BAMB)

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In BAMB, 16 partners from 8 European countries are working together with one mission – enabling a systemic shift in the building sector by investigating and creating circular solutions. The project is developing and integrating approaches, methods and tools that will enable …
Buildings and districts

City-zen: City Zero (carbon) ENergy

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A city operating entirely on clean energy. In theory, it's possible. But in real life? How to integrate new solutions in existing buildings, systems and people's lives? What are the technical, economic or social barriers? And how to overcome these? That's what we learn by …
Buildings and districts

GeoWatt: research on fourth-generation thermal grids

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GeoWatt researches fourth-generation thermal grids for balancing the local demand of groups of users for heat or cold with the available supply.
Thermal storage Thermal networks

SmarThor: research platform for multi-energy systems and markets

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In the SmarThor project, EnergyVille is developing an ICT platform that can control a fully integrated multi-energy system, using EnergyVille’s own algorithms. We aim for real-life and properly functioning demos in residential areas or industrial sites with an optimally …
Strategies and markets Buildings and districts

EVERLASTING

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Electric vehicles of all types, shapes and sizes are finding their way to European roads and currently make up 0.34% of the European car market. However, the adoption of EVs has not gone as fast as initially hoped. The main reasons for this are Range anxiety: caused by …
Electrical storage

TEMPO: Temperature Optimisation for Low Temperature District Heating across Europe

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The TEMPO project develops technical innovations that help to lower temperatures in district heating networks for a future sustainable energy system. This is realised by 1) innovations to create low temperature (LT) networks for increased network efficiency and integration …
Thermal networks Thermal storage

Thin Film Photovoltaic Lab

Two types of photovoltaic materials are investigated: perovskites and CIGS (Cu-In-Ga-Se). In this lab the material properties are improved and the interfaces and the different layers in the thin film solar cell structure are studied and optimised. The size of solar cells can …
Solar

Thermo Technical Lab

The EnergyVille Thermo Technical Lab is one of the major research facilities of EnergyVille. It is a multifunctional laboratory infrastructure in which static and dynamic tests on thermal systems (heating and cooling) can be performed. Equipment for industrial as well as …
Thermal networks Thermal storage Conversion

Low Voltage Grid Lab

The EnergyVille Low Voltage Grid Lab is a platform for testing smart grid products and systems
Electrical networks