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......
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 ....
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....
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......
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......
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...
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......
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 ......
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.....