The document discusses trends and developments in sustainability and renewable energy, highlighting key areas such as renewable energy sources, sustainable buildings, and sustainable mobility. It emphasizes the need for a knowledge economy to foster innovation and address challenges in transferring research into marketable products and services. The document also outlines the importance of collaboration among stakeholders to drive efficiency and the development of sustainable technologies.

1. TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS
IN SUSTAINABILITY AND
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Jan Willem Dijk MSc
Jan.willem.dijk@dconsult.nl
NBI Expo, March 6th 2012

2. Jan Willem Dijk MSc.
 Owner and director DConsult
 Consultancy on sustainability and energy
 International business analyses
EU27, China, Indonesia, etc.
 Project financing and feasibility studies
 Expert environment European Commission
 http://www.dconsult.nl

3. Table of Content
Opening speech:
 Renewable energy
 Sustainable buildings
 Sustainable mobility and transport
 Innovation, from research to new products and
services

4. Table of Content
Opening speech:
 Renewable energy
 Sustainable buildings
 Sustainable mobility and transport
 Innovation, from research to new products and
services

5. Renewable energy
 Wind power
 Hydropower
 Solar energy
 Biomass
 Biofuel
 Geothermal energy

6. 700 BC: making fire and burn

7. 300 BC – 20 AD

8. 100-600 BC

9. 1767 first solar collector by Horace de Saussure

10. 1921
Albert Einstein
wins the Nobel
Prize for his
explaining the
photoelectric
effect.

11. 1916:
Experimental
proof of the
photoelectric
effect

12. 1883
Charles Fritts
1st Solar Cell

13. Solar nowadays
I. Solar thermal:
 Water heating
 Heating, cooling
and ventilation
 Water treatment
 Cooking
 Process heat

14. II. Solar power:
1.Photovoltaic
2.Concentrated solar

15. Improving solar efficiency

17. Table of Content
Opening speech:
 Renewable energy
 Sustainable buildings
 Sustainable mobility and transport
 Innovation, from research to new products and
services

18. 45.000 BC Prehistoric living, shelters and wood fired
heating
Energy Efficiency in buildings

19. 19th century:
-body heat
-wood, peat

20. Until the 60s of the 20th century, many
houses in the Netherlands and
Belgium were heated with coal stoves.

21. 1. Effective Insulation
2. High-Performance
Windows
3. Tight Construction and
Ducts
4. Efficient Heating and
Cooling Equipment
5. Lighting and
Appliances

22. Last decade, a zero-energy building: a building with zero
net energy consumption and zero carbon emissions
annually
Next step: energy delivering house
A house delivers more power and heat than it
requires

23. Smart-grids FUTURE
 Connecting energy
supply and demand
in a city in a
decentralized way
 Smart
interconnection
between residential
homes, offices and
industries, and e-
mobility (batteries)

24. Table of Content
Opening speech:
 Renewable energy
 Sustainable buildings
 Sustainable mobility and transport
 Innovation, from research to new products and
services

25. 2200 BC – 21stcentury
Horse drawn vehicles

26. 1st
Industrial
revolution:
Coal
Train

27. Gasoline, kerosene, and ethanol (alcohol)
powered engine (biofuel)
1908-1927: T-Ford:
innovation

29. Innovation hampers
 1908 the Model T
had fuel economy of
11 Liters per 100 km
 2008 cars drive on
average on 8,3 Liters
per 100 km
 100 years of
innovation resulted
in 13% fuel
reduction

31. New technologies developed
New:
 Bio-fuel mobility
 Electric mobility
Reasons:
 energy security,
 less oil dependency
 green house gas
reduction

32. Bio-fuels
 1ste generation
Biodiesel (vegetable
oils and animal fats)
and ethanol (corn or
sugarcane)
 Problem: food versus
fuel
production, deforestati
on

33. Bio-fuels 1st generation
 1ste generation
Biodiesel (vegetable
oils and animal fats)
and ethanol (corn or
sugarcane)
 Problem: food versus
fuel
production, deforestati
on

34. Bio-fuels 2nd generation
 2nd generation:
biofuels algae and
cellulosic biomass
 Problem:
expensive, less
volumes
available, pollution, hig
h energy content

35. Electric mobility
 Electric vehicles are
100% emission-free
 having no polluting
byproducts,
 are more fuel-
efficient,
 get a better mileage,
 and have less
moving parts to
PROBLEM:
wear out
BATTERIES

36. Are hydrogen and fuel cells a
solution for electrical vehicles?

37. Table of Content
Opening speech:
 Renewable energy
 Sustainable buildings
 Sustainable mobility and transport
 Innovation, from research to new products and
services

38. Sustainability and
renewable energy
opportunities are based
on technology

39. For the development of this
technology a knowledge economy
For the development
is required
of sustainable
technology a
knowledge economy
is required

40. A knowledge
economy creates
ideas and
technical
knowledge that
is applied
through
innovation into
new products
and services
resulting in new
economic

41. One of main the main problems is:
Transferring research into innovation
into new products and/or services

42. Besides:
their is a gap
between
universities and
companies, and
entrepreneurshi
p is lacking

43. Solution: Stakeholders have to come
together have to come together

44. To become innovative and
successful
 An economic and institutional regime to
provide incentives for the efficient use of existing
and new knowledge and the flourishing of
entrepreneurship;
 An educated and skilled population to
create, share, and use knowledge well;
 An efficient innovation system of
firms, research centres, universities, consultants
and other organizations to tap into the growing
stock of global knowledge, assimilate and adapt it
to local needs, and create new technology;
 Information and communication technology to
facilitate the effective creation, dissemination, and
processing of information