TY - JOUR
T1 - Low carbon heating and cooling by combining various technologies with Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage
AU - Pellegrini, M.
AU - Bloemendal, M.
AU - Hoekstra, N.
AU - Spaak, G.
AU - Andreu Gallego, A.
AU - Rodriguez Comins, J.
AU - Grotenhuis, T.
AU - Picone, S.
AU - Murrell, A. J.
AU - More Authors, null
N1 - Accepted Author Manuscript
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - 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 across Europe, because of both technical as well as organizational barriers, e.g. differences in climatic and subsurface conditions and legislation respectively. After identification of all these barriers in a Climate-KIC research project, six ATES pilot systems have been installed in five different EU-countries aiming to show how such barriers can be overcome. This paper presents the results of the barrier analysis and of the pilot plants. The barriers are categorized in general barriers, and barriers for mature and immature markets. Two pilots show how ATES can be successfully used to re-develop contaminated sites by combining ATES with soil remediation. Two other pilots show the added value of ATES because its storage capacity enables the utilization of solar heat in combination with solar power production. Finally, two pilots are realized in countries with legal barriers where ATES systems have not previously been applied at all.
AB - 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 across Europe, because of both technical as well as organizational barriers, e.g. differences in climatic and subsurface conditions and legislation respectively. After identification of all these barriers in a Climate-KIC research project, six ATES pilot systems have been installed in five different EU-countries aiming to show how such barriers can be overcome. This paper presents the results of the barrier analysis and of the pilot plants. The barriers are categorized in general barriers, and barriers for mature and immature markets. Two pilots show how ATES can be successfully used to re-develop contaminated sites by combining ATES with soil remediation. Two other pilots show the added value of ATES because its storage capacity enables the utilization of solar heat in combination with solar power production. Finally, two pilots are realized in countries with legal barriers where ATES systems have not previously been applied at all.
KW - Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage
KW - Geothermal energy
KW - Heating and cooling
KW - Photovoltaic-thermal module
KW - Pilot plant
KW - Remediation
KW - Technological innovation
KW - Water scarcity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85061257203&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.01.135
DO - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.01.135
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85061257203
SN - 0048-9697
VL - 665
SP - 1
EP - 10
JO - Science of the Total Environment
JF - Science of the Total Environment
ER -
