Masters Dissertation | Reaching for the Stars: Enabling Renewable Energy Communities in France with the CELESTE Decision Support System
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In January 2024, I completed a Master of Science in Sustainability in Energy Provision and Demand Management from the Centre for Alternative Technology Graduate School of the Environment.
For my dissertation, for which I received a distinction grade, I created a prototype software (CELESTE) designed to educate, inspire, and empower users to develop their own Renewable Energy Communities in France.
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This second pregnancy is nothing like my first. I am calm, cocooning. I do my exercises, occasionally even yoga. I have an ample supply of comfortable maternity clothes and a giant (and I mean giant) horseshoe pillow that encloses and immobilises me in a firm hold at night. Sshhh. It whispers. I got you.
I am on top of my medical appointments. I take my vitamins and monitor my blood pressure. I have been registered at the maternity hospital since around the third month of my pregnancy. My husband and I spent about 15 minutes discussing a baby name, decided, smiling, and haven’t wavered since.
I am, in short, having almost the opposite experience as my first pregnancy.