The Development of Zero-energy Transformation Concepts in the Netherlands. A Comparative Case Study Analysis of Two Transformation Concepts

1876-6102 © 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Peer-review under responsibility of the organizing committee of the SBE16 Tallinn and Helsinki Conference. doi: 10.1016/j.egypro.2016.09.170 Energy Procedia 96 ( 2016 ) 413 – 424

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