Project description
Demonstrating improved efficiency and integration of underground heat storage systems
Geothermal energy is a highly efficient and widely utilised sustainable energy source across Europe. Further innovation on heat storage in geothermal reservoirs helps to improve its output and decrease emissions. In this context, the EU-funded PUSH-IT project aims to enhance geothermal energy's potential by introducing and demonstrating innovative high-temperature heat storage solutions that can be customised to different types of supply-demand and geological conditions. These solutions are expected to significantly impact renewable energy systems, improving societal and technical integration and efficiency and lowering emissions. The innovative testing approach of the project will pave the way for the development of critical enabling technologies that can reduce environmental impact, lower energy costs and increase sustainability.
Objective
PUSH-IT will showcase full-scale application of high temperature heat storage (up to 90°C) in geothermal reservoirs using 3 different technologies at 6 different sites. The 3 technologies addressed in PUSH-IT are relevant for different reservoir types, which are available everywhere in Europe. In PUSH-IT we will develop, deploy and test our technologies for a variety of configurations of heat sources, heat storage technologies, geological conditions, distribution systems, stakeholder populations and market and legal conditions. Hence, PUSH-IT provides a unique scope on demonstration, integration and advances for seasonal heat storage that are relevant across Europe. These results will enhance the utilisation of sustainable energy and create a balanced system for sharing benefits and burdens tied to sustainable heat generation, storage and distribution activities.
We will reduce environmental impact, levelised cost of energy and risks and improve performance and robustness via development and demonstration of several enabling technologies, i.e. newly developed monitoring and water quality control and novel drilling and completion and novel control systems. Societal engagement is a key element and achieved via citizen engagement, analysing motivations and perceptions of heat storage, and investigating governance policies and business models that engage citizens in decision making regarding urban heating systems including storage.
The PUSH-IT consortium combines heat suppliers, well drillers, public planning offices and academic partners. These cover all required technical and societal know-how and background for heat systems. We will realise operational projects and use these to generate generic solutions and practices relevant across Europe. All activities will be monitored and reported, yielding a valuable comprehensive dataset on the technical and social real-world performance.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcontrol systems
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringthermodynamic engineeringheat engineering
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrology
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energygeothermal energy
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2628 CN Delft
Netherlands
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3981 AJ Bunnik
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3981 AJ Bunnik
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3317 DD Dordrecht
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3981AJ Bunnik
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3433 PE NIEUWEGEIN
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64289 Darmstadt
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80686 Munchen
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44801 Bochum
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14473 POTSDAM
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2400 Mol
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11821 Prague 1
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3115 HH Schiedam
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45060 Orleans
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3584 CS Utrecht
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7701GS DEDEMSVAART
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116 36 Praha 1
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1211 Geneve
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CM1 1SQ Chelmsford
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SN2 1FL Swindon
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SW1V 3EL Falmouth Cornwall
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EX4 4QJ Exeter
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