June 20, Sven Stremke gave a keynote at the ‘Future Energy Landscape’ conference organized by SENSE – the National Research School for Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment. The conference was co-organized by Rijkswaterstaat and will take place at Wageningen University from 10:00 to 17:00. The other keynote speakers were: Mattijs Erberveld, Coordinator Space and Sustainability Rijkswaterstaat Prof. Dr Maarten...

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November 20th, Dirk Oudes gave a keynote on a conference for experts on ‘external safety’ in Amsterdam. This field is concerned with safety issues in the living environment, such as risks from transport and storage of dangerous fluids. The network of external safety professionals called ‘Relevant’ organize a yearly conference, each time with a different topic. The topic of this year was energy transition and 250 people attended,...

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November 27, Sven Stremke gave an invited presentation at the Architecture Center in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. His talk, among others, featured a selection of projects from the Academy of Architecture studio ‘Energize’ that addressed the near-future ambitions for solar energy in the Province of Utrecht. All details can be found here (Dutch only). Figure: Artist impression organic photovoltaic installation in urban fabric (van...

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November 20th, Paolo Picchi gave a keynote presentation at the 2018 Ningbo Forum ‘Landscapes for Community Revival’. The Forum was hosted by the Chinese Society for Sustainable Development and organized by the China National Engineering Research Center for Human Settlements. Paolo’s presentation entitled “Community based renewable energy transition: A case study from the Netherlands” did draw from the application of the Five-Step...

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July 19, Sven Stremke gave an invited presentation at the 2018 Groningen Energy Summer School for PhD researcher from around the world, organized by the Energy Academy Europe in Groningen. The 7th edition of the summer school “Local Energy Innovation for Global Change” and was held from July 12 to 20 in the North of The Netherlands. Sven’s contribution entitled “Energy Landscapes: A first typology across scales and...

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The 2018 PECSRL conference was held from September 3 to 9 in Clermont-Ferrand, France. This years edition of the conference was entitled ‘European Landscapes for Quality of Life’? NRGlab member Roberta Pistoni’s conference paper with the title “Renewable energy and sustainable planning and design: From technological choices to landscape project” has been presented in the special session organized by the COST Action TU1401...

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