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  • The NEON Poster Wall

    The NEON Poster Wall For a quick overview of all of NEON’s research, have a look at the posters below! (Click to enlarge.)

  • Come and meet NEON at the Ecomobiel trade fair in Den Bosch!

    On October 10-11-12 2023, NEON will be at the Ecomobiel/Vakbeurs Energie trade fair in the Brabanthallen in Den Bosch for their annual demo. NEON’s bright young researchers work on a rich variety of topics, all with a common goal: accelerating the energy and mobility transition. At the trade fair they will present their research through…

  • How a recent attack on 100% renewable models might end the trench warfare and benefit our climate

    Or why bickering over facts is a step in the right direction Thursday evening (July 27, 2023) Seaver Wang of the Breakthrough Institute published an attack on 100% renewable papers and took specific aim at the group at LUT University in Finland lead by prof Christian Breyer. The attack states 100% RE models are “bunk”…

  • Copper scarcity will not materially slow down the energy transition

    Auke Hoekstra, director of NEONresearch, a.e.hoekstra@tue.nl, @aukehoekstra Abstract Many scientific publications assert copper scarcity is a roadblock on the way to renewable energy, but almost none take substitution into account. Although copper demand could increase about 30% because the transition to renewable energy, substitution with aluminum is possible for almost all applications. Therefore, it is…

  • The first NEON Q-celebration!

    Written by Youn and Tessa We would like to introduce the new collaboration and reflection approach this year at NEON: “Q-celebration”. At this quarterly event, NEON PhD candidates present and spark their cross-disciplinary collaboration research. The Q-celebration are created to work towards our next Demo 3, do see the posts on Demo 2 or Demo…

  • NEON DEMO 2

    On October 11 2022, the second NEON demo took place. For this occasion, we were guests at the Ecomobiel/Vakbeurs Energie trade fair in Den Bosch. This fair welcomes ~7000 visitors a day, so we had quite the audience! Also, being present at a trade fair is a great opportunity to cross the bridge from science…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Why we must move beyond doomsday scenarios in order to save the planet

    This theme has been nagging me for a long time but a recent piece in Wired called made me decide to pre-publish a snippet of a scientific article I’m writing on this. The piece that triggered this post concludes: It’s time to stop telling our children that they’re going to die from climate change. It’s…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Wind worries and smart solutions

    In this first NEON research blogpost, I will introduce a range of partners, principal investigators and PhD candidates around an important topic that has gotten a lot of (critical) attention recently: wind power. What are all the worries about? Why is wind so important? And who is doing what on this topic within NEON research? Wind worries The worries regarding wind turbines on land are growing, the…

  • 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…