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106 Ad van Wijk is sustainable energy entrepreneur and Pro- fessor Future Energy Systems at TU Delft the Netherlands. Van Wijk started his career as scientific researcher in sustainable energy at Utrecht University In 1984, van Wijk founded the company Ecofys, which eventually grew into Econcern. Econcern developed many new sustainable energy products, services and projects. Examples include the 120 MW offshore wind farm Princess Amalia in the North Sea, several multi-MW solar farms in Spain and a bio-methanol plant in the Netherlands, which is the largest second generation biomass plant in the world. Van Wijk achieved many important prizes for excellent entrepreneurship. Amongst others he was Dutch entrepre- neur of the year in 2007 and Dutch top-executive in 2008. At TU Delft van Wijk will focus on the energy systems of the future such as the car as power plant. Especially he will do research and at the same time will realize ‘’the Green Village’’. www.thegreenvillage.org where these future energy systems will be implemented, tested and researched in ‘Future labs’ Van Wijk has published a very readable book about the energy system ‘How to boil an egg’ ISBN: 978-1-60750- 989-9. And a book about the Green Village ‘Welcome to the Green Village’ ISBN: 978-1-61499-283-7 (print) or ISBN 978-1-61499-284-4 (online) Follow Ad van Wijk at twitter @advanwijk or via his website www.profadvanwijk.com ABOUT THE AUTHORS