Providing buildings with electric load flexibility with packaged thermal battery cooling systems to help customers meet their financial and sustainability goals
Pittsburgh Area
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#energystorage easy, fast, reliable, the future. viewer.zmags.com/publication…
Ice Storage or Chilled Water Storage? Which Is Right for the Job? | Chiller & Cooling Best Practices coolingbestpractices.com/sys… Now TES is more affordable than ever with the available tax credits in the U.S.
Thermal Energy Storage is finally being understood as a solution for dispatching renewable energy and that buildings are a great application for thermal energy storage. apple.news/AV540M42ITU25xT3a…
Got Ice? Energy storage for cooling and NOW for heating too!
Reason 1: Thermal storage now has a dedicated tax credit bit.ly/3R1tLj3
Buildings have thermal and electrical loads. About half are thermal. Use thermal energy storage for thermal loads and batteries for electrical. More affordable more efficient more flexible.
And #heatpumps can delivery comfort and cost savings to commercial buildings as well. Www.Trane.com/SShp
A study in Maine found that #heatpumps without fossil-fueled backup can deliver comfort and cost savings — even in the state’s subzero winter temperatures. Reporting by @Shemkus: bit.ly/3PS1XMO
Thermal energy storage is affordable and reliable NOW. It creates a market for wind, it shifts load off peak to when it is cheaper or cleaner or both. Plus we can use it with heat pumps to reduce winter demand!
The #TXenergy grid narrowly avoided rolling blackouts following 2 conservation calls by ERCOT last week. We need demand-side solutions & policy action.
🚨Have you registered for our Policy + Industry Workshop, Sept. 26-27 in Austin? eepartnership.org/2022-speer…
The solution is to either reduce or time-shift some of that demand, Victor says Got Ice storage? #energystorage wired.com/story/texas-precar…
Thermal energy storage incentives could lower the requirement with resiliency and reliability
#energytwitter - Anyone have a really evocative graphic for the utter scale of renewables we have to add to the mix to meet climate goals? Either globally, US, regionally, etc.? I have a few I use but I feel like people really, really don't get the scale of how many TW needed.
Add to that the commercial opportunity of thermal energy storage. Transparent DER’s that would provide cooling during curtailment. Sharing the savings would incentivize more installations. Almost half of all building loads are thermal! Makes to much sense
Fun math - ERCOT wholesale pricing currently pegged at $5000/MWh. @austinenergy is asking me to curtail my thermostat for 2 hours (3:30-5:30pm). At 5kW, that's 10kWh of energy, worth about $50 on the wholesale market. And, they will pay me $0. So much untapped DR potential.
How about thermal energy storage? Move the HVAC on peak load to other times. 75% of all electricity goes to buildings and half of that is thermal loads. Proven. Reliable. Efficient. Affordable.#thermal energy storage
Texas seems to set a new record for energy use every week. How about energy efficiency? Electricity storage? Homegrown and local power like rooftop solar? Good for Texans and the grid. #txlege #txenergy reuters.com/business/energy/…
The ability to shift load to save money or reduce carbon will be very important sooner rather than later. trane.com/commercial/north-a…
eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail… Choices lead to value and $avings Shift electric load to save #EnergyStorage
Buildings use almost 75% of all electricity. Half of that load is for thermal loads such as space conditioning, hot water, etc. Yet thermal energy storage is not promoted by anyone at any legislative or utility level? TES is manufactured in NJ. TES is affordable & good policy
Today I start working full-time on energy policy @NJBPU (moving from a legal role). In honor of my new role, anyone have a favorite oddball energy policy they want to share? Winning answers may (or may not) be added to NJ's policy agenda.
Kidding.
Mostly.
Love it. Don’t forget #energystorage on the customer side of the meter. About half a commercial buildings loads are thermal. #thermalstorage #thermalbatteries should be in every building. In new construction very quick payback. Load flexibility is the key
Thoughtful movement forward with rebates for affordable reliable load shifting technologies and rates that shape consumption behavior.
As the grid becomes greener customers that can shift load based upon grid signals will be the low cost operators. Buildings with #thermalenergystorage will have a huge advantage. Especially if they use the ice storage to heat as electrification moves forward.
Those commercial buildings with #Thermalenergystorage won’t notice as much because they can shift demand. Buildings without energy storage will pay top dollar.
Pennsylvania regulators are warning customers that the cost of electric generation will increase by up to 45% next month. cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/…
Heat buildings with electricity from a green grid. Heat with ice youtu.be/HFzngLMLbXs
Electricity is only the tip of the iceberg.
Heat accounts for approximately 50% of energy use and about 40% of global CO2 emissions according to @IEA.
To meet the climate goals we must decarbonise heat.
