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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.

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 …

The Ecoscore is an environmental indicator describing on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best) how clean a vehicle is. The Ecoscore concept was already developed in the early noughties by a consortium including VITO and the VUB.

SolSThore aims to enable massive deployment of solar energy in the context of Smart Cities. This requires a combination of highly efficient building-integrated PV (both on the level of energy yield and device reliability) and local storage by means of batteries. SolSThore …

The FC-DISTRICT project wants to optimise and implement an innovative energy production and distribution concept for sustainable and energy efficient refurbished or new "energy autonomous" districts, exploiting decentralised co-generation coupled with optimised building and …

E-harbours tackles the challenge to create a more sustainable energy model in harbour regions on the basis of innovative intelligent energy networks (smart grids).

MERITS wants to develop, demonstrate and evaluate a compact seasonal storage system based on novel high-density materials that can supply required heating, cooling and DHW with up to 100% renewable energy sources. Delivery of heat on different dedicated temperature levels is …

The open innovation platform "Flemish Living Lab Electric Vehicles" came about to speed up the introduction of electric vehicles in Flanders. Companies or organizations test innovative technologies, products, services and concepts through a representative test population in …

SPICY is a collaborative research project that addresses the development of a new generation of Li-ion batteries meeting the expectations of electrical vehicle end-users, including performances, safety, cost, recyclability and lifetime. For this purpose, SPICY considers the …

The project 'Towards a Sustainable Energy Supply in Cities' is a part of the Strategical Action Plan for the Province of Limburg (Strategische Actieplan Limburg in het Kwadraat SALK) and enables EnergyVille to become an even better integrated top research centre, with 1 …