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Energy geostructures: anew era for geotechnical engineering practice.

Energy geostructuresprovide low carbon, cost-effective and local energy solutions to structures and infrastructures, which opens a new era for the geotechnical engineering practice, by extending the conventional role of geotechnicaldesign to the one of add ...

The Icelandic Geotechnical Society, IGS2019

Multiport Energy Gateway

Yan-Kim Tran

The global problem of energy supply and the reduction of the carbon footprint can only be solved by a massive replacement of fossil fuels or atomic energy by renewable resources. As the latter are mostly weather-dependent, they are uncontrollable and unpre ...

EPFL2019

Hire fast, fire slow: the employment benefits of energy transitions

Marc Vielle, Vincent Moreau, François Richard Vuille, Yann Füllemann

The transition towards decarbonized and efficient energy systems has broad socio-economic implications. We estimate the potential impacts on employment from efforts in energy efficiency in industry, transport and buildings as well as substituting local ren ...

2019

The institutional challenges of scaling-up housing retrofit: the Swiss cities of Basel and Sion

Eghbal Arian Mahzouni

Purpose This paper aims to discuss the nexus between two societal (sub) systems of housing and energy supply to shed new light on the key institutional barriers to socio-technical energy transition in the built environment. The key research question is to ...

EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Added value of smart storage operations on an alpine run-off-river HPP obtain from hydrological-hydraulic modelling

Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Jessica Zordan, Maria Del Rosario Ponce Guzman

Run-off-river hydro projects can create sustainable energy minimizing impacts to the surrounding environment. Among many advantages of these systems, whose development has in fact been largely supported during the past years by the confederation, their mai ...

2019

Policy analysis during socio-technical energy transitions: three essays on the Swiss electricity sector

Paul Adrianus Van Baal

Global energy systems are changing rapidly. This energy transition complicates the use of traditional policy analysis methods. However, proper policy analysis and design is essential in managing the transition. This thesis takes an interdisciplinary approa ...

EPFL2019

Electricity supply in West Africa: between bilateral agreements and a single regional market

It is necessary to specify that this study is an academic work carried out by a student as part of his master's project. The hypotheses and reasoning made by the student are at the origin of the results obtained. Energy has a crucial role in the economic d ...

2019

Impacts of extreme climate conditions due to climate change on the energy system design and operation

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Vahid Moussavi Nik

Extreme climate events occur more frequently and stronger in the future due to climate change. Maintaining the energy security during extreme conditions is essential to reduce the impacts of extreme climate and avoid disasters. Resilient design of the ener ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Wind Turbine Wakes in Directionally Varying Wind Shears

Fernando Porté Agel, Mahdi Abkar

In the atmospheric boundary layer, the Coriolis force associated with the Earth’s rotation induces a spanwise wind shear in addition to the wall-normal one leading to a continuous change in wind direction with height. The spanwise wind shear in directional ...

2019

Mechanics – the key to unlocking subsurface resources for energy supply and storage

Patrycja Ewelina Baryla

Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) have published a short article mentioning activity of Laboratory of Soil Mechanics on their blog. The article was devoted to recent conference organized by LMS, namely The International Symposium on Energy Geotechnics. ...

2018

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