8th Meeting of the International Energy Agency Task on Solar Energy i
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Emilie Nault and Giuseppe Peronato, post-doctoral and doctoral assistant at LIPID, participated in the 8th meeting of the IEA SHC Task 51 « Solar Energy in Urban Planning », which took place in Berlin from September 26 to 29, 2016.
The task 51 is a 5-year-long international research project conducted within the Solar Heating Cooling (SHC) program of the International Energy Agency (IEA) aiming at the integration of solar energy into the urban planning and design processes. Along with 10 other countries, Switzerland participates through a group composed by Emilie Nault and Giuseppe Peronato as well as other researchers from LESO (EPFL) and ISAAC (SUPSI).
At the Berlin meeting, Emilie Nault presented the prototype decision-support tool UrbanSOLve (Urban SOLar Visual Explorer), developed during her thesis with the objective of supporting the efficient evaluation of the solar performance (passive and active potential) of neighborhood design variants.