Author: Mixel Kiemen
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Sprinting towards NEON demo 2 and beyond
Summary NEON was financed to produce a yearly New Energy and Mobility Outlook for the Netherlands. In this article, we will elaborate on the governance structure for NEON as the team gets used to working towards that goal. NEON is a special project that requires its own unique management approach. NEON has chosen to learn…
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Bipolar dc grid patent
Bipolar dc grid is a promising solution for future power distribution grids for land, sea and space. These grids have higher power transfer capability when compared with 3 phase ac grids and unipolar dc grids. In case of future electric ships, the bipolar dc grids can help in improving the energy efficiency while augmenting the…
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NEON demo 2021: shining light on the research team
On the 29th of Oktober NEON held its first yearly demo. A year had passed since the NEON kick-off in 2020. It was a very tumultuous and unexpected time for all of us during this global pandemic, which for NEON has meant that we faced some bumps in the road during our start-up time. The…
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Me@NEON Sofia Rosero
Moving to the Netherlands has been completely eye-opening for me in more than one way. I came here to pursue a Master in Political Sciences and had a completely different future pictured ahead of me. However, I had the luck to meet someone that got me interested in pursuing a Master in Energy Sciences at…
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Governance for accelerating the energy transition
Technical standards, you might think? Why are these relevant here? With companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon ruling the digital world, isn’t standard-setting an obsolete activity carried out by aged men with big beards (no pun intended, Auke 😉 ). Nothing is further from the truth than that! I have spent most of my academic…
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Me@NEON: Olaf Borsboom
I remember the first time that I felt like I was right in the middle of the future. I was sitting in the passenger seat of one of the first commercially available electric cars in the Netherlands, and the driver pressed the throttle pedal. The astonishing acceleration pushed me back into the seat, and the…
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Electric Powertrain Simulation
In Work Package 4, I, Theo Hoffman, investigate together with co-supervisors Pascal Etman and Mauro Salazar how to design small series of electric vehicles in a cost-effective manner. On the 29th of June, we held the future of automotive workshop at the European Control Conference 2021, with prominent speakers in the field. With our PhD students, Olaf Borsboom, Fabio…
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Me@NEON: Helena Schmidt
How very urgent the situation around climate change is, only dawned upon me at the beginning of 2019 when the international climate movement, inspired by Greta Thunberg, was all over the news. At the time, I was finishing up my Master in Clinical Psychology. The more I started engaging myself with the topic of climate…