ForestVoltaics thesis project wins audience award 2022 Sunday conference

ForestVoltaics thesis project wins audience award 2022 Sunday conference

The Master thesis project by Sam van den Oeterlaar about ForestVoltaics won the audience award of the 2022 Sunday Conference. The project was supervised by Igor Sirnik and Sven Stremke, both Wageningen University & Research, and was conducted under the umbrella of the Wageningen Solar Research Programme. Thesis abstract: Afforestation is becoming politically popular to boost biological carbon sequestration to reduce climate change effects....

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Invited presentation at Energy Research and Social Science conference

Invited presentation at Energy Research and Social Science conference

May 30, Dirk Oudes presented the results of his ongoing research on photovoltaic parks at the 2nd Energy Research and Social Science (ERSS) conference (28-31st of May), in Tempe/Phoenix (Arizona). The conference was hosted by the Arizona State University and attracted more than 200 researchers focusing on energy from a wide variety of disciplines. Dirks presentation was titled ‘Case study of frontrunner photovoltaic parks in Europe: an...

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Keynote 2018 Ningbo Forum in China

Keynote 2018 Ningbo Forum in China

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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Conference presentation Clermont-Ferrand, France

Conference presentation Clermont-Ferrand, France

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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Presentation 2017 ECLAS conference in London/UK

Presentation 2017 ECLAS conference in London/UK

September 11, Sven Stremke will give a presentation at the 2017 ECLAS conference in London/UK. This years conference of the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools is hosted by the University of Greenwich and focuses on ‘Creation/Reaction’. Sven’s presentation is co-authored by Prof. emeritus Dirk Sijmons, former state adviser for Landscape in the Netherlands. Presentation title: From creation to co-creation to...

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