Hoogland's Comfort Canopy

3.3.3 Preliminary Design Proposal for
Hoogland’s Sustainable Energy
Network
The energy network envisaged by the Team H1
adopts an open-loop geothermal system for heat
and cold storage due to its lower cost and higher
efficiency compared to closed-loop systems.
There are existing and potential full-electric houses
in the area as well as houses planned to be connected
to a heat grid. These houses will already use
a PV or PVT system for their own hot water. The
low-temperature heating and cooling will be connected
to the heat network. As seen in Figure 3.3.3,
this energy network necessitates the collective use
of many components in the neighbourhood. In
summer, the cooling systems and the fridges of the
supermarket, public space grounds, road surfaces,
houses and even open surface water will be cooled
down with the refrigerant and this cooling medium
will transfer its heat to an underground heat storage.
In winter, this heat storage will assist the instantaneous
solar energy.
Figure 3.3.3: Proposal for Hoogland’s sustainable
energy network
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