Increasing market opportunities for renewable energy technologies with innovations in aquifer thermal energy storage

Heating and cooling using aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) has hardly been applied outside the Netherlands, even though it could make a valuable contribution to the energy transition. The Climate-KIC project “Europe-wide Use of Energy from aquifers” – E-USE(aq) – aimed to pave the way for Europe-wide application of ATES, through the...

Low carbon heating and cooling by combining various technologies with Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage

A transition to a low carbon energy system is needed to respond to global challenge of climate change mitigation. Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (ATES) is a technology with worldwide potential to provide sustainable space heating and cooling by (seasonal) storage and recovery of heat in the subsurface. However, adoption of ATES varies strongly...

A system dynamics model for knowledge and technology of enterprises in the open innovative environment

In the fast developing knowledge economy age, the internal resources of an enterprise are usually not enough for proper development, and cooperation with external organizations becomes a popular approach for many enterprises to improve their knowledge storage and technology level, the background of which is called open innovative environment....