Design and planning implications of practical solar energy for the new towns Almere and Lelystad

This report looks at the state of development of solar energy under the climatological conditions in the Netherlands and determines the immediate and near future possible applications that are within the realm of the RIJP. The RIJP has little role as a research institute in this field. It is concerned with large scale applications within the new towns in the Flevoland polders of tested solar energy uses. Therefore system design is analysed only so far as it externally effects the structure of the buiding and the environment. The impacts of solar energy on design of a residential area are emphasized and applied to the situations in Almere and Lelystad.