Integrating sustainable technologies

The E-Hub challenge

The share of renewable energy needs to increase drastically to achieve energy neutral or even low energy districts. The fluctuating nature of electric supply from wind and PV......

 

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What is an e-hub?

An e-hub is a system for the capture, conversion, storage, distribution and control of energy. It aims to maximise the use of on-site renewable energy at the district level ....
 

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Thermal Storage

Thermal storage is an important technology for matching supply and demand of heat. Renewable heat can be stored underground, in distributed heat storage or via thermo active foundations....
 

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Smart energy control

A smart energy control system is being developed to match supply and demand of electricity, heat and cold on district level. This includes shifting the demand of heating installations......
 

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Business Models

Business models can be integrated into the control system using 'business agents' in order to store energy when the price is low and sell it when the price is high......

 

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Simulation Platform

A simulation platform has been produced in Matlab. The main objective is to test the smart control system in a number of virtual case studies. It consists of...

 

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Assessing districts

The Energy Hub Project is developing a tool to assess new types of energy systems for existing or planned districts. It is based on smart control of appliances and short term and long term storage of heat......
 

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Lab demonstration

The smart control algorithm will be demonstrated at the TPG laboratory of the University of Genoa. The lab is testing different pieces of heat and electricity generating equipment including energy storage ......
 

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Demonstration

The e-hub energy control system will be demonstrated in the district of Tweewaters in Leuven, Belgium. Heart of the energy supply is a biomass fired cogeneration unit, which is expected to provide 80% of.....
 

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