'Energy storage' is too often understood to comprise only electricity storage.

The heating sector needs to be electrified anyway, so why not use #HeatPumps to convert wind&solar power to heat (or resistors for 'excess' power), and store it in thermal #SeasonalHeatStorage like boreholes, caverns, pits or aquifiers?

That's cheaper in regions, where space heating represents a significant share of energy consumption and #districtHeating is used.

#SectorCoupling

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/NREL-closed-loop-pumped-storage-hydro-study/691532/

'Energy storage' is too often understood to comprise only electricity storage.

The heating sector needs to be electrified anyway, so why not use #HeatPumps to convert 'excess' wind&solar power to heat, and store it in thermal #SeasonalHeatStorage like boreholes, caverns, pits or aquifiers?

That's more cost efficient in regions, where space heating represents a significant share of energy consumption and #districtHeating is used.

#SectorCoupling

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/NREL-closed-loop-pumped-storage-hydro-study/691532/

@janrosenow Finland is serious about #nuclear #DistrictHeating.
https://www.ldr-reactor.fi/en/dh/

A spin-off has been founded to commercialize the LDR-50 #DistrictHeating #reactor.
https://www.ldr-reactor.fi/en/1099-2/

#energydon

There are #green solutions underground. We need to unlock the potential of #geothermal #energy
#DistrictHeating #ClimateCrisis 👇👇 https://n.respublicae.eu/EuroEnergyInn/status/1671852629771579395
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/mortenhelveg/status/167185976

📺 In our final Deep Dive series on “Breaking free from #fossilgas”, we team up with @TEPenergy
& examine #buildings & #districtheating and show how they need to change to succeed in the transformation away from fossil gas. When? June 22, 10:00-11:30 am 👉 https://bit.ly/3Nv5gdT

Germany aims to connect 100,000 buildings to district heating every year https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/germany-aims-to-connect-100000-buildings-to-district-heating-every-year/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Berlin #districtheat #districtheating #districtheatingandcooling

RT @solarthermal: #SolarHeat reduces the pressure on #biomass in #DistrictHeating: A real case from 🇩🇰

Watch the recording of the 1st #SolarDistrictHeating webinar with @eumayors & @IEASHC: https://eu-mayors.ec.europa.eu/en/decarbonising-your-citys-district-heating-system-with-solar-heating-advantages-and-success-stories
@SolarHeat_EU @HeatChangers https://t.co/x7ByrTvlfM

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eumayors/status/1666820618577387529

50-60% #wind share does not significantly increase extreme events in local spot market prices.

AND

The #heat geek in me emphasises that the #districtheating sectors’ #power-to-heat capacity has gone from an innovative idea in the early 2000’s, to actual 100s of MWs contribution to the integration of wind power. Along with interconnectors and the flexible fleet of Danish power plants.

Two of the findings from our recent wind integration study.

Have a look for yourself https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421523002161

RT @solarthermal: #SolarHeat seasonal #storage: A win-win for #DistrictHeating 👏👏

How cities can decarbonise their #DistrictHeating with #SolarHeat? Join the webinar by @eumayors & @IEASHC
🗓️June 5 (11:00-12:30)
Register here: https://eu-mayors.ec.europa.eu/en/solar-heating-webinar-2 https://t.co/fbVvp3shfe

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eumayors/status/1663917012043677698

You missed today's webinar on solar heating and/or are ready for more?

Join us for the next webinar on decarbonising your district heating on 5 June!

Register now 👉 https://eu-mayors.ec.europa.eu/en/solar-heating-webinar-2
RT @solarthermal: 2⃣6⃣4⃣ cities in the 🇪🇺 use #SolarDistrictHeating
How cities can decarbonise their #DistrictHeating with #SolarHeat?
Join the webinar by @eumayors & @IEASHC
🗓️June 5
🕚 11:00-12:30

Register on https://eu-mayors.ec.europa.eu…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/eumayors/status/1658814882874114048

For German speakers or anyone who has more time to translate than myself, a press release on a district heating scale industrial heat pump that is scheduled for commissioning in Germany this August:

https://www.mvv.de/journalisten/pressemitteilungen/detail/vom-schwedischen-finspaang-nach-mannheim-erste-mvv-flusswaermepumpe-erreicht-ihren-einsatzort

#DistrictHeating #HeatPumps

RT @EUSustainable: Much food for thought for moving forward! The time is right to repower the EU and decarbonise our heating sector. #Geothermal energy and #Districtheating will play a crucial role in an EU #geothermalstrategy for achieving this.
Thanks to @mortenhelveg, @SamirsAbboud, @ahaugstrup! https://t.co/4oGRTs65ep

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/mortenhelveg/status/1654412914101501957

RT @ABClimate: Great to hear MEP @NielsFuglsang reminding the important role of #DistrictHeating to support system #Flexibility & #Storage !

Certainly something for #EMD discussions, and maybe for a future integrated #Heatstrategy ?

#EnergyStorageCoalition https://t.co/Ovz9KeFoXK

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/NielsFuglsang/status/1654151887753445377

Jumping on the AI-bandwagon:

Used Bing Create to generate "scenarios". Prompt: "district heating plant taking over a city. [Crime noir/cheerful]". Amount of smoke indicates training on past data, not low-combustion future 😃 #districtheating #districtenergy

Using Old Coal Mines As Cheap Sources of Geothermal Heat https://hackaday.com/2023/04/11/using-old-coal-mines-as-cheap-sources-of-geothermal-heat/ #geothermalenergy #districtheating #greenhacks

Using Old Coal Mines As Cheap Sources of Geothermal Heat - For as much old coal mines are a blight upon the face of the Earth, they may have ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/04/11/using-old-coal-mines-as-cheap-sources-of-geothermal-heat/ #geothermalenergy #districtheating #greenhacks

Using #hydrogen for heating may sound attractive at first glance. However, all of the independent research on this topic comes to the same conclusion: heating with hydrogen is a lot less efficient and more expensive than alternatives such as #heatPumps, #districtHeating and #solarThermal such as #PVT.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/27/hydrogen-is-unsuitable-for-home-heating-review-concludes

The #CoalRegionsEU secretariat is setting up a Working Group on the #decarbonisation of fossil fuel-based #districtheating to share experience and identify technical options to transition to non-fossil fuel alternatives.

Read more ➡️ https://europa.eu/!g6R6k6 #EnergyTransition

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Energy4Europe/status/1633420285230628870

#EU funded #H2020Energy #Projectspotlight 🔎

Meet #CoolDH warming entire neighbourhoods using recycled low-temperature #DistrictHeating

👉https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/442938-letting-no-warmth-go-to-waste?WT.mc_id=exp
💻http://www.cooldh.eu/
📸COWI

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/cleanenergy_eu/status/1630875242544476161