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Climate footprint can be cut by half with co-living
Shared areas such as kitchen and dining rooms can reduce climate footprint and facilitate social gatherings. Photo of Testbed Akademiska Hus by Alexandra von Kern Published Nov 18, 2020The climate footprint per person can be reduced by more than 50 percent if the homes are designed to share common areas such as kitchens and bathrooms. This is shown by research from KTH in Live-In La...
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Temporary change of recommendations
Published Nov 03, 2020Due to new recommendations for the Stockholm region from the Public Health Agency there will be temporary changes in KTH’s recommendations.
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Research on Heat Pumps and Refrigeration - with ETT involved
Published Oct 20, 2020Swedish Energy Authority has supported research on heat pumps and refrigerating technology since 1970-es. The research done on the area has led to many concrete and positive effects in the society. ...
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In memory of Peter Kjaerboe
Published Oct 19, 2020Our colleague and friend to many of us Peter Kjaerboe has passed away September 2020. Researcher, innovator, civil engineer and an inspiring person has left many good memories behind him.
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Third prize in the Eurammon contest won by our student
Published Oct 08, 2020One of our students, Fabio Giunta, has been awarded third place in the Eurammon Natural Refrigeration Award 2020 contest
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New successful publication
Published Oct 08, 2020Paper by our colleagues has recently become one of the most downloaded according to the statistics by the Interantational Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
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The division of Energy Systems at the UN-Habitat World Habitat day
Published Oct 06, 2020Keynote presentation on the World Habitat day about climate change challenges and opportunities for the decarbonisation of cities.
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Students make Indian city Gurugram sustainable
The winning team, from the left: Marko Miletic, Erik von Schultz, Emma Wernius, Simon Färegård and Hanna Olausson. Not pictured: Martina Sekkenes. Published Sep 28, 2020The yearly competition for the students from the Energy management course was completed on Wednesday last week. The students have been working with suggestions for city development – this year a distr...
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A datapool full of research goodies
Center manager Jonas Anund Vogel under the removable floor in one of the apartments in testbed KTH. Published Sep 09, 2020A data pool with data from testbeds and research results from Live-In Lab will keep KTH's research and education at the forefront. In addition, the data pool forms the basis for a larger research data...
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This is how we'll work at KTH after the summer
KTH library Published Jul 01, 2020All campuses will reopen for on-campus education this autumn. Starting 1 August, buildings will gradually be opened to students.
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Successful PhD defence by Fumi Harahap
From left to right: Fumi Harahap and professor Semida Silveira Published May 28, 2020On April 24th, 2020, Fumi Harahap from the division of Energy Systems KTH-dES, successfully defended her PhD thesis “Exploring synergies between the palm oil industry and bioenergy production in Indon...
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Successful PhD defence by Dennis Dreier
From left to right: Professor Viktoria Martin, Dennis Dreier, Dilip Khatiwada and Will Usher. Published May 27, 2020On May 5th, 2020, Dennis Dreier from the division of Energy Systems (KTH-dES), successfully defended his PhD thesis “Transition Technologies for Electrification and Optimisation of Bus Transport Syste...
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Rector's decision on Distant Examination
Published May 14, 2020Due to the COVID-19 situation, the President has decided that distance examination will be implemented for all examinations that take place during the period 2020-04-14 – 08-22 (V-2020-0273). The deci...
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UPCOMING: The 2020 OSeMOSYS Steering Committee meeting
Published Apr 27, 2020The steering committee meeting will be held on June 25th 2020.
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Electrification pathways for Tanzania: Implications for the economy and the environment
Published Apr 27, 2020A joint OSeMOSYS and Leontief Input-Output model for Tanzania to assess possible electrification pathways in the country.
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Cost-effectiveness of energy efficiency investments for high renewable electricity system
Published Apr 27, 2020Suggesting a new methodology for quantifying the economic impact of energy efficiency investments in systems with high shares of RES and estimating the LACoSE value.
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5th workshop in modelling CLEW systems in Nicaragua
Published Apr 27, 2020Capacity building in modelling CLEWs systems continues in Nicaragua.
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Second FAO Nexus dialogue in Morocco
Published Apr 27, 2020Investigating possible nexus solutions and supporting measures related to water scarcity, agricultural intensification, and sustainable energy for agriculture in the Souss-Massa river basin, Morocco.
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World Water Day 2020: “If climate change is the shark, then water is its teeth”
Victoria Falls of the Zambezi River, By Diego Delso Published Apr 27, 2020KTH researchers Vignesh Sridharan, Eunice Ramos, and Abhishek Shivakumar illustrate the interdependencies between climate systems and the water cycle in a Nature communications blog post.
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SIM4NEXUS project consortium meets online for last project meeting
Published Apr 27, 2020Due to the coronavirus outbreak, the meeting, which was initially planned to take place in Vienna, was carried out via teleconference.
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