4 FAQs about Underground winter and summer cold and hot energy storage cabinet

What is underground thermal energy storage?

Underground thermal energy storage includes water tank systems, aquifer storage, and underground soil storage, mainly focused on borehole arrays, whose application is more extended compared with the case of cavern storage.

Should underground thermal energy storage be included in a future energy system?

Thus, a future energy system design should incorporate underground thermal energy storage (UTES) to avoid this temporal mismatch and emphasize thermal applications. Such a basis of design would introduce new methods of energy arbitrage, encourage adoption of geothermal systems, and decrease the carbon intensity of society.

What is hot and cold storage in deep reservoirs?

Hot and cold storage in deeper reservoirs is increasingly distinguished in literature from ATES (Pepin et al., 2021), more widely known as reservoir thermal energy storage (RTES). Other methods of UTES in deep formations may include engineered solutions such as cavern thermal energy storage (CTES).

Can a seasonal underground energy storage system be designed without excavations?

Evaluation of energy storage capacity without extensive excavations. An optimal design for seasonal underground energy storage systems is presented. This study includes the possible use of natural structures at a depth of 100 to 500 m depth. For safety reasons the storage fluid considered is water at an initial temperature of 90 °C.

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