by Rebecca Hueting – REFORMERS Communication and Dissemination manager at Deep Blue In this short blogpost we report on our partners meeting at Urban Tech Republic last October. On the 8th and 9th of October REFORMERS’ research task leaders gathered in Berlin for an extended executive board meeting. The hosting partner Stoff2, our partner developing and building electrolyzers for the production of green hydrogen, organised…
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By Wouter Parys, Researcher, VUB. In this article the VUB team shares its preliminary results from the Energy System modelling done on the dutch flagship valley in Alkmaar. The REFORMERS flagship energy valley is the southern part of the Dutch city of Alkmaar. This energy valley is an around 11 square kilometres diverse region with a dense urban residential area, an industrialized area and…
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