The potential of demand-side management in ATES systems

dc.rights.license	CC-BY-NC-ND
dc.contributor.advisor	Nieuwlaar, Dr. E.
dc.contributor.author	Willemsen, N.A.
dc.date.accessioned	2015-06-22T17:00:22Z
dc.date.available	2015-06-22T17:00:22Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.identifier.uri	https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/20172
dc.description.abstract	The research described in this paper is focussed on the potential of marrying the concept of demand-side management with the Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (ATES) system. This is done by adding a short-term thermal storage system in the form of a water tank to the system design called a buffer. A model was build based on measured data of existing ATES system to study the effects of adding a buffer to the ATES system.The result is that both the investment costs and the yearly energy costs can be reduced by 10% - 15%. The concept can be taken one step further by letting the system operation react to the prices on the imbalance market. In doing so, yearly energy costs can be reduced by as much as 35%
dc.description.sponsorship	Utrecht University
dc.format.extent	3626805
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.language.iso	en
dc.title	The potential of demand-side management in ATES systems
dc.type.content	Master Thesis
dc.rights.accessrights	Open Access
dc.subject.keywords	ATES, demand-side mangement, heating, cooling, renewable, energy, costs, savings, grid balancing, thermal energy storage, energy storage
dc.subject.courseuu	Sustainable Development