The Texas Energy Crisis makes me think of thermal energy storage for system resilience.
Can storage reduce electricity consumption? An equation for the grid-wide efficiency impact of using cooling thermal energy storage for load shifting doi.org/10.1088/1748-9… via @IOPscience
Can storage reduce electricity consumption? An equation for the grid-wide efficiency impact of using cooling thermal energy storage for load shifting doi.org/10.1088/1748-9… via @IOPscience
With a battery for energy storage it's an energy loser: 90% charging efficiency & 90% discharging efficiency gives 81% round-trip efficiency.
But with thermal storage, the system efficiency can actually be greater than 100% compared w/ baseline. How is that possible?
But with thermal storage, the system efficiency can actually be greater than 100% compared w/ baseline. How is that possible?
Power plants, transmission lines and A/Cs all have lower efficiency when it's hot. By using thermal storage we can charge the system (such as making ice or chilling water) at night when it's cooler and when those systems have higher performance.
Thus, thermal storage is not just for resilience, but can be a performance enhancer overall. [END]
h/t @ThomasDeetjen for leading this work. BTW, this work was done in collaboration with @ERCOT_ISO as a study of a resilience measure.
h/t @ThomasDeetjen for leading this work. BTW, this work was done in collaboration with @ERCOT_ISO as a study of a resilience measure.
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