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TU Delft Energy Initiative

The Delft Energy Initiative is the gateway to energy research, education and innovation at TU Delft. This initiative serves as a catalyst for collaboration and discussion between scientists and students and between TU Delft and the business community, governments and politicians. In this way, the Delft Energy Initiative wants to contribute to energy innovation and ensure that sustainable energy supply remains a priority for society.

he initiative consists of 4 main cross-faculty energy institutes: Wind Energy; Urban Energy; PowerWeb and e-Refinery. Of course there is some overlap; that is why the institutes are in close contact with each other. Themes like Social Innovation and Governance cross each institute. The energy platforms Ocean Energy; H2 and eBattery are also involved. Below you will find the links to the institutes and platforms.


A startup related to the energy transition can obtain a voucher through the Delft Energy Initiative and researchers can win an amount of money with their publication annually. Our 'Energy Club' ensures that all TU Delft students can exchange knowledge about the latest research and energy education through interesting events.

Welcome to the TU Delft Energy Initiative

The 4 energy Institutes

Wind Energy Institute

Urban Energy Institute

PowerWeb Institute

e-Refinery Institute

The Delft Energy Initiative works closely together with more TU Delft platforms and initiatives

― Click here! - Prof Peter palensky, Director

Activities

Energy Startup Voucher

Do you want to know how Delft Energy Initiative can contribute to your startup with €5000?

Best Energy Paper Award

Annual event where you can win up to €1000 with your energy paper

TU Delft Energy Club

Check out what our energy students can do for you!

All Energy Day

Annual student event

News

TU Delft brings hopeful story on critical raw materials

Smartphones, solar panels, medical equipment and electric vehicles are just a few examples of everyday products that use critical raw materials. The demand for these materials is on the rise, and it's expected to further increase in the coming years mainly due to the energy transition. However, the challenge of critical raw materials is that they are metals and minerals that we have to get from faraway countries while we do need them in large quantities in Europe. How to deal with that? With that question in mind, TU Delft is organising Materials Week which will take place from 13-17 May 2024. For professionals and policymakers 14 May: Roundtable: Rethinking materials security The talk starts at 14:00 and ends with drinks. For everyone 15 May: Seminar Critical Raw Materials in a circular world The seminar starts at 14.00 and ends with drinks. For everyone 16 May: Lunch Lecture Critical Raw Materials Lunch from 12:15, lecture starts at 12:45. Registration is required. For everyone May 17: Energy Debate The debate starts at 15:00 and ends with drinks. For everyone 17 May: TU Talks | Critical Night 18:30-21:30, free entry Go to previous item Go to next item What activities are taking place? TU Delft actually has everything it needs to improve Europe's autonomy, say scientists Benjamin Sprecher (Assistant Professor Critical Raw Materials and Sustainable Design) and David Peck (Associate Professor Critical Materials and Circular Design) in this longread . With researchers from all other faculties and support staff, Benjamin and David work together to explore and tell the hopeful story of critical metals. This story is reinforced by the various activities taking place during Materials Week. Curious about the various activities, including this seminar and this European election debate ? Then check our Materials Week page for more information and register directly for one of the events. Why Materials Week? During Materials Week, TU Delft shows what it is doing in the field of critical raw materials and how this contributes to the Europe of the future. And not entirely without reason. In the week of 13-17 May, in fact, there will be a European summit on critical raw materials and EU member states are expected to adhere to the Critical Raw Materials Act . For the university, two (of many) important reasons to come up with its own Materials Week. David Peck (left) is an expert on European strategic autonomy and how it relates to critical resources. Benjamin (right) is considered one of the leading experts on critical raw materials. Among other things, he sets up decision support tools for designers. Benjamin Sprecher, industrial ecologist and one of the driving forces behind Delft Materials Week: ‘Our mission is to reduce dependence on other countries for these critical metals. In addition, we run up against planetary boundaries; we want to contribute with our research to the preservation of planet Earth. This can be done, for example, with research into reuse and (better) recycling of these raw materials and metals. The circular economy will also play an important role in the EU strategy. In addition, we develop products that last longer or require less critical metals, or none at all, through smart design. Our recent battery research is an example of this; where batteries have been invented with sodium instead of the critical material lithium.’ More information Are you a journalist and would you like to attend one of our activities, speak to one of the scientists from our press kit on critical resources or join us on our press tour taking place on Monday 13 May? Then send a message to one of our Climate & Energy press officers: • Dave Boomkens – D.J.Boomkens@tudelft.nl / 0634081461 • Pauline Bijster – H.P.Bijster@tudelft.nl / 0648421089

Delft University Fund continues successful campaign: Tech for Impact

Does molten salt make for clean and safe nuclear power? Can we treat heart problems better with a digital twin? Will bacteria succeed in removing arsenic from groundwater? Will we be climate neutral by 2050 by capturing CO2 from the atmosphere? These questions are at the heart of the Tech for Impact 2024 campaign.

ERC Grant awarded to Daniele Ragni for research on predicting aeroacoustics

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced that Daniele Ragni will receive an ERC Consolidator Grant for his research on noise caused by the interaction of rotors with airframe components. The ERC Consolidator grant is aimed at researchers with 7 to 12 years of post-PhD experience and spans a duration of five years, providing ample support for groundbreaking research endeavors.

The energy transition under high tension: the High Voltage Technologies Group

A while ago we thought it was no longer needed within TU Delft: a group entirely dedicated to maintaining and developing the use of high voltage. After all, the expectation was that the grid would become decentralised in the Netherlands, and that households would start generating their own electricity. This has partly become true, however, a vast amount of the renewable energy comes in large ‘chunks’, for example through offshore wind farms and large solar fields. "The fact is that we need high-voltage more than ever," Prof Peter Vaessen emphasizes. "This is also the reason we have a new, revived high-voltage group at TU Delft: the High Voltage Technologies Group."

Isabell Bagemihl wins the Best Energy Paper 2023

"Techno-economic Assessment of CO2 Electrolysis: How Interdependencies between Model Variables Propagate Across Different Modelling Scales"
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Agenda

May

21

e-Refinery National Symposium on Electrochemical Conversion
21

"But What Should We Do? The Ethics of Climate Action", with John Broome
23
Thesis defence

Doctoral defence S.S. Subramanian
28
Thesis defence

Doctoral defence A. Fu

June

11

Climate Action Festival 2024
13

Climate Action Programme lecture "Regional Sea Level Rise" & "Climate Finance for Climate Resilience Infrastructure"
25

AI PhD Poster Day 2024

September

04
06

The 28th Thermodynamics Conference
12

Climate Action Programme lecture Herman Russchenberg
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