7th Expert meeting "Solar Energy in Urban Planning"

The task 51 is a 5-year-long international research project 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 of experts, which is composed by LIPID’s PhD students Emilie Nault and Giuseppe Peronato as well as other researchers from LESO (EPFL) and ISAAC (SUPSI).
Emilie Nault and Giuseppe Peronato work on PhD theses, directed by Prof. Marilyne Andersen from LIPID and Prof. Emmanuel Rey from LAST, in topics related to the use of solar energy in the planning and design at the urban scale. Their contribution to the task 51 has been focused on the subtask A “Legal framework, barrier and opportunities” and subtask C “Case studies and action research”, while also participating to the other subtasks B “Processes, methods and tools” and D “Education and dissemination”.
At the task meeting in Stockholm, Giuseppe Peronato presented the latest contributions of LIPID within the subtask A and subtask C. Since this meeting, he also acts as a national coordinator of subtask A for Switzerland, taking over this role from Emilie Nault.
Emilie Nault’s PhD thesis and participation to the task 51 are supported by the Eurotech Universities Alliance, the Competence Center Energy and Mobility (CCEM) in the framework of the Synergistic Energy and Comfort through Urban Resource Effectiveness (SECURE) project and by the EPFL.
Giuseppe Peronato’s PhD thesis, conducted in the framework of the ACTIVE INTERFACES research project, and participation to the task 51 are supported by the National Science Foundation through the National Research Project NRP 70 “Energy Turnaround” and by the EPFL.