So this is section 2.2. And
in this section, I'm going to be giving you lots of examples
of Smart Energy Solutions. So,
smart energy is much more than just solar panels
and electric charging stations cities like
where I live Amsterdam, are demonstrating the
admissions to approach at how to become carbon
neutral and energy independent. And
As I probably mentioned before that. It's
important for me to borrow a lot of first-hand
experience or projects that I've worked on
or a part of
one way or the other. So that I can really kind of explain
how these things work from a
much more practical way and not just a
hypothetical way.
So, in this section, I'm going to
be talking about real life examples of
Smart Energy Solutions, whether they be
from my Net, Zero neighborhood, that's producing their
own energy storing. And I want you to, in distributing their own
energy to a kind of positive energy transformation
of homes and businesses into virtual power
plants and even car batteries
are now charging entire
football stadiums. So without any
further
They're do. Let's move on to these.
So this is the clean chip and Dutch is
called this whole trip. It's a mouthful. It's one of my favorites. Again
another amsterdam-based project. But at the moment, it's
Europe's Most sustainable NetZero neighborhood. And
you can already tell by these images that the
clean ship is basically a
combination of 47 different households that
are floating on the water. Not only that, they're using
a super sophisticated system that
connects
The energy intelligence so that it becomes a kind of
net positive or a net zero or
positive type of energy. You have supplier for
themselves. And this, this
isn't even a logical sustainable, socially, sustainable
neighborhood. Where the people have
all the amenities that they need to have
a kind of feature proof City. And so
the founders and the designers of metabolic here in Amsterdam used
a system that they call PSI.
Side which entails more than just a few solar panels that
you may see on the top of the rooftops here and
heat pump solar panels and heat pumps. Of course
are defined as the current state of the Arts for renewable energy
systems, but metabolic goes way
further. And the, the side system is
consisted of a whole kind of mash
up of different kinds of Smart Energy Technologies,
like solar panels solar thermal
panels wind turbines.
Pumps, batteries hot water, tanks, combined
heat, and Power District heating
networks, electrical vehicles to connect the
power up on from your home. There's also what
they have a seasonal thermal energy Storage, Fuel Cell,
electrolyzers, electric boilers, electric
heating, for from infrared panels, bio
digesters. Biomass heating stoves cooling
systems heat recovery, which
is basically eventual ventilation.
And there's so many Technologies in this little project
that I can't go into to all of them. But
what is interesting is that they looked at this as a kind of holistic approach
to designing kind
of energy energy, positive types
of neighborhoods and that by that, I
mean that they're able to create these kinds of synergies between
the different components. So for example, solar
photovoltaic system connected with a heat
pump, this kind of combination
Nation can be used to convert the excess photovoltaic power into
heat. They can be stored in a water
tank that provides heat during the rest of the day. And so pairing
solar PV with a combined heat and power. These
kinds of units can enable energy
generation seasonally. So both summer
and winter. So here in the net, see here, the Netherlands. We
have broad range of temperatures from
freezing in the winter to very very hot in the summer. So
these kinds of synergies as they
Wrap them in systems help balance out those those needs
and this also helps
alleviate the seasonal variability on the grid. So when
the heat pump can be reserved in order to provide solar
power Cooling in summer, that's
possible in this in this type of system. So
this is a pilot project.
It's as you see they're kind of single attached to
family units, but there is a kind of commitment
to explore these kinds of
For Energy Solutions, collectively. So it's not just one house. Doing one thing.
They are all interconnected and this becomes a nice model
for other City districts. So that it's not just
a floating houses on the water but maybe more
higher density, blocks
and so forth that can actually see the achieve, the same type
of energy neutrality or energy
generation and therefore remove
all of the kind of dependencies on fossil
fuels and many many other.
As of say, 20th Century Technologies.
This is a project that I was, my
not just me, but my family was involved with
which is called a virtual power plant. And this
was the kind of idea of how can
in the future what happens? If all
of our houses have solar panels on the
roofs and transforming them into a kind of virtual power
plant. So it's not about just so
much using our your own solar power to meet
your energy demands, but story.
That energy on a battery which
is made up of second-hand recycled, lithium
batteries, basically, car batteries, and
then sharing them with your neighbors. And
that's a wonderful kind of example of how
you can trade the
energy. So that you can be
much more as social and environmental and
even even conscious about the
Aging infrastructures. It's a
A sustainable energy kind of model where you're
keeping the energy Supply super
clean and super lean. The
sense of Distributing that energy hyper
locally and on a local network. So
you can actually store the batteries.
When you come home from work, everyone. Everybody comes
home from work. They don't need to use energy
from the the National Grid or the regional grades,
but they can just use it from their own batteries or their neighborhood batteries.
And it's important to, to
understand that this becomes a Kind of Wonderful
model of how to share your
natural resources. And that
is super important ingredient for the Smart City.
So, let's move back
to the, let's say, the individual level. So, the each
each of the homes have Heating and a
lot of the heating is, of course, controlled by a thermostat. And
the old days. It used to be the kind of turning
Road thermostat where you can control the heating
of your home. I'm sure that many
of you are familiar with the Google nest, and
the tone is a little bit different because it's connected directly
to the energy provider. So using
a
Smart meter, you have instant
access to the the
energy control and also the insights in terms
of how you are using the energy or wasting energy or
and even payment. So since it again, it's
connected to your energy provider, you have insights in terms of
euros dollars. You are actually spending at that moment and
a monthly plan. So the
the smartest thermoset helped you save
And as I said, you can control the heating and seeing
how much energy you are using and
what it costs. And
the hope is that with these kinds of insights. You can actually change your
behavior and reduce those costs over time. And
you can connect the tone to
other smart devices in the house. So
in other words, the security can
also be connected to your tone. So the the
smoke alarms and the other kinds of
things.
Actually detective a one-stop-shop device on
your wall, that can control these many things. And
what's also interesting, interesting, too is that when
you, you can always the tone will also kind
of display how you are performing compared to
your neighbors, not specifically, of course, but how
what the average is look like for your type of
your house size and you can actually start making decisions
about that when you start
comparing it on the super local,
So super local level. So, for some practical
examples, imagine if your lighting and
heating were automatically adjusted, the tone can do that.
It can also send a
notification to the mechanic. If the boiler or
the kettle is is down that
super handy. And like I said, when it's connected
to other systems like a carbon monoxide sensor
that the energy, the Emergency Services can
come to your Rescue, of course, that's important.
What's been useful for me? And my tone is saying,
oh crap. I forgot to turn the heat off that. I
just pull out my phone and I can control not just the
Heats, but also the lights, if you have a Philip smart
light, hue light, you can review can control all
of these things remotely if you're away and what's
fun is that we organized
a hackathon with some super talented
developers, energy activists, and
so forth to come up with some new.
Solutions that can connect to the tone. So here the Netherlands, there's
roughly 350,000
to 400,000 tone
users. And if you have a nice device, for
example, or nice solution, the
you can connect to the tone API, so you
can actually dictate, maybe the changing temperatures,
or turning lights on and off via
the, the API and a lot of other insights to
like, with data.
You can actually detect different signatures of
energy use. So the
data will tell you how often you're using the
dish. Washer the dryer, another costly energy,
costly appliances, and it
can actually maybe turn those appliances on and
off for you, not yet. But maybe some developers can
turn those to apply appliances depending on those signatures. So
there's a lot of really interesting data that from the personal, from
the health side.
Side from the comfort sign cooked Comfort
side all the way to the aggregate site on a national level.
There's lots of insights that can be accessed via the,
the API. And so
this becomes a really smart hub for your home, especially
as it relates to energy.
So in countries like the Netherlands, we
world famous for obviously,
but for a lot of countries, especially on the
on the coast one of the best power sources is
wind. And I think a lot of kind of
the debates that are going on right now are about the, the
noise that windmills make or the size that
they become that, they pollute
the say, visually pollute the Landscapes. So
this Dutch company
Very, very interesting Dutch company here in Rotterdam developed
a patent and called The Flower turbines
and it's a kind of aerodynamic
kind of system that is super cost-effective
because it's made up of two to win
two blades. And so and
they also made it also quite sculptural. Therefore, artistic,
and when you
look at it that way, in terms of the efficiency, the beauty the
smallness in the kind of
Of the quietness, it becomes a viable
alternative for maybe some of the rooftops. And
some of these may be public parks to
generate lots and lots of
energy, even if it's not Sunny if it's especially
if it's not Sunny, there's a lot of energy that can be
produced with a winds, especially for the cities that are
on the on the coast and so by keeping it small,
they can basically help
people all around the world generate.
Their own renewable energy.
And they're really kind of disrupting the way that people
are thinking about wind energy because small window,
small turbines is definitely something
that needs to be looked at for
the four reasons. I mentioned here. They're super efficient
and so's you may need one. But so
is that their research has shown that if you just have a little cluster like
I'm literally like a little garden of
these turbines. You can generate a
lot of energy for multi many many houses.
Sustainable. So again, you're not going to be drawing
from the grid. But in fact you're going to be powering hyper
locally in your own home, your own business and
it's designed to of course, protect the floor. Fionna
like are birds and another flying friends
and you won't be
generating. That noise, that does upset a lot of the people around
the world and it's super flexible and
adaptable and it can work together
with solar as I mentioned.
This becomes a very, very interesting option for
those synergies that you're looking for. When it's sunny you
use solar one is when to use wind
of the turbines. Sometimes
you get with a battery. Of course, that
is the basically the best to
get kinds of package where you're not going to have to rely
on the national or Regional energy grids
that you can remain super independent and
energy resilient with a
Wind turbine on the roof, or on the
park?
And last but not least vehicle-to-grid. This
may be a super foreign concept of. This is a concept. There
were definitely exploring here in the Netherlands, which
is about transforming, your electric vehicle,
which is basically a laptop
and Battery on Wheels to
transform it into a bio Direction, all kind of
charging station. So, what, what
you're seeing here is an image of how visitors
and guests of the
Football stadium is the famous IX. The
Amsterdam IX Rena can now borrow from
the batteries of the cars. If
there was an explicit demand or need, and
if you're donating that energy, you could actually redeem
those credits at the bar. So, my
car is now sponsoring part of this conflict. This,
this, this concert or the silver Ball Match and
but it's what's important is that in this
Stadium underground. It is a huge.
Arm of second-hand Toyota batteries
and they can help
power. The entire business
district in the living districts around it,
but it's combination of energy storage and
borrowing from the capacities of
the cars themselves to meet those demands.
So the next section, we're going to be talking about the vulnerability
of all those interconnections and
and vulnerabilities of the
energy Market.