Print Email Facebook Twitter Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (ATES) smart grids Title Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (ATES) smart grids: Large-scale seasonal energy storage as a distributed energy management solution Author Rostampour, Vahab (TU Delft Team Tamas Keviczky) Jaxa-Rozen, M. (TU Delft Policy Analysis) Bloemendal, Martin (TU Delft Water Resources; KWR Water Research Institute) Kwakkel, J.H. (TU Delft Policy Analysis) Keviczky, T. (TU Delft Team Tamas Keviczky) Date 2019 Abstract Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (ATES) is a building technology used to seasonally store thermal energy in the subsurface, which can reduce the energy use of larger buildings by more than half. The spatial layout of ATES systems is a key aspect for the technology, as thermal interactions between neighboring systems can degrade system performance. In light of this issue, current planning policies for ATES aim to avoid thermal interactions; however, under such policies, some urban areas already lack space for the further development of ATES, limiting achievable energy savings. We show how information exchange between ATES systems can support the dynamic management of thermal interactions, so that a significantly denser layout can be applied to increase energy savings in a given area without affecting system performance. To illustrate this approach, we simulate a distributed control framework across a range of scenarios for spatial planning and ATES operation in the city center of Utrecht, in The Netherlands. The results indicate that the dynamic management of thermal interactions can improve specific greenhouse gas savings by up to 40% per unit of allocated subsurface volume, for an equivalent level of ATES economic performance. However, taking advantage of this approach will require revised spatial planning policies to allow a denser development of ATES in urban areas. Subject Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (ATES)Distributed energy managementDistributed probabilistic energy managementDistributed stochastic model predictive controlLarge-scale seasonal energy storage To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f4292d62-3274-4c69-9e37-3bcf45895ba6 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.03.110 Embargo date 2019-10-19 ISSN 0306-2619 Source Applied Energy, 242, 624-639 Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2019 Vahab Rostampour, M. Jaxa-Rozen, Martin Bloemendal, J.H. Kwakkel, T. Keviczky Files PDF 1_s2.0_S0306261919305197_main.pdf 3.74 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f4292d62-3274-4c69-9e37-3bcf45895ba6/datastream/OBJ/view