Sustainable urban regeneration based on energy balance and e-mobility integration (DIEMIGO 2.0)

In the ‘Pieken in de Delta’ research project DIEMIGO 2.0 the potential benefits of strategic and balanced introduction and use of decentralized devices and electric vehicles (EVs), and attached generation based on renewables are investigated in detail in the case study of the ‘Merwe-Vierhaven’ area (MW4) in the Rotterdam city port in the Netherlands. It is a continuation on the DIEMIGO research with the focus of integration of eMobility with renewable energy provision at Schiphol Airport Amsterdam (TU Delft, 2010).

The problem in existing urban areas (like MW4 port area) is that these areas are often restricted to a few energy sources due to lack of available space for integration. Besides this, energy consumption in most cases is relatively concentrated in such (existing) urban areas. This limits the potential of sustainable urban regeneration based on decentralized systems, because there is no balanced choice regarding the energy mix based on renewables and system optimization. Possible solutions to obtain a balanced energy profile can come from either the choice to not provide all energy locally, or by adding different types of storage devices to the systems. The use of energy balance based on renewables as a guiding principle, as elaborated in the MW4 case study, is a new approach in the field. Ultimate aim is to achieve energy (or even carbon-) neutral urban development in existing brownfield locations like the MW4 haven area based on an integrated approach of buildings, infrastructures and flexible e-appliances and e-mobility.

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from the Faculties of Architecture, Electrical Engineering, and Industrial Design, at TU Delft work together with experts from the relevant stakeholders to execute this project and develop state of the art solutions.

ETD contact for this project: Arjan van Timmeren (A.vanTimmeren@tudelft.nl) or Egbert Stolk (E.H.Stolk@tudelft.nl).

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