Renewable energy system
Short-term or seasonal storage of heat underground is a scalable and environmentally friendly way of re-using energy and reducing electricity consumption for heating purposes. It could play the role as a key stabilizer in a future, renewable-based energy system that will depend largely on intermittent energy sources.
Efficiency, profitability, and reduce energy loss
While geological thermal heat storage is already commercially applied today, the underground is a complex environment and there remains significant challenges in terms of improving efficiency, profitability, reducing energy losses and further scaling up storage concepts.
Develop digital twin technology for real-time monitoring
In this project, we seek to help realize the full potential of underground thermal energy storage by developing digital twin technology that allows for real-time monitoring, understanding and prediction of the subsurface, and act as an enabler for optimal design, short- and long-term operation and management of open or closed geothermal energy storage reservoirs, in the context of a larger, dynamic energy system.
