Location: The Green Village, Van den Broekweg 4, 2628 CR Delft, The Netherlands
Website: thegreenvillage.org
Any questions? Contact us at sphere.dev@pythia-energy.nl
A living lab for sustainable innovation
The Green Village is a field lab located on the TU Delft campus, where companies, researchers, governments, and citizens collaborate to develop and test innovations for the built environment. It provides a unique setting where new technologies and approaches can be validated in practice, rather than only in theory.
From water safety to energy systems
Many of the methods applied within this project originate from the water sector, where probabilistic risk analysis has long been used to design flood protection systems. Instead of designing for a single extreme scenario, these approaches consider the likelihood and impact of a wide range of possible events.
At The Green Village, this way of thinking is translated to energy systems. By applying similar risk-based methods, we can better understand how local energy infrastructure behaves under uncertainty, and how to design systems that remain reliable under varying conditions.
A real-world testing ground
What makes The Green Village unique is its regulation-light environment, allowing innovations to be tested at neighbourhood scale. This enables us to explore how energy demand, generation, and infrastructure interact in practice, and to assess solutions such as flexibility, storage, and coordinated control in realistic conditions. This Fieldlab project is supported by the European Union’s EFRO (European Regional Development Fund) and carried out within the framework of Kansen voor West.
Why this matters
By combining real-world experimentation with risk-driven design approaches, The Green Village helps bridge the gap between innovation and implementation. The insights gained here contribute to more resilient, efficient, and future-proof energy systems that can scale beyond the lab into real communities.
