Important social and technical factors shaping the prospects for thermal energy storage
Important social and technical factors shaping the prospects for thermal energy storage
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DOI：
10.1016/j.est.2021.102877
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发表时间：
2021-06
影响因子：
9.4
通讯作者：
David G. Barns;P. Taylor;C. Bale;A. Owen
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作者：
David G. Barns;P. Taylor;C. Bale;A. Owen
热能储存很可能是可持续、安全和负担得起的能源系统的组成部分，该系统在满足供需方面面临着越来越大的挑战。技术经济研究探索了热储存部署的潜力，但能源系统的转型也受到一系列行为者的活动和决定的影响。我们从英国热能储存的案头调查中收集了新的经验证据，并通过社会技术分析探讨了热能储存在能源转型中的地位和作用。我们发现，该技术在英国仍然是一种相对小众的方法，受制于复杂的国家和地方政策和治理安排，以及受益于显著锁定效应的稳定化石燃料供暖制度的影响。虽然我们承认专注于单一技术系统以实现所需的变革性能源系统变革的局限性，但我们发现热存储可以为当地和国家带来好处，以支持系统平衡并缓解季节性需求高峰，同时有可能带来其他好处。商业模式中有前途的创新有助于实现热存储部署，这些也适用于更广泛的低碳供热。
Thermal energy storage is likely to be integral to a sustainable, secure and affordable energy system facing ever greater challenges in matching supply and demand. Techno-economic studies have explored the potential for thermal storage deployment, but transitions in the energy system are also influenced by the activities and decisions of an array of actors. We gathered new empirical evidence from a desk-based survey on thermal energy storage in the UK and through a sociotechnical analysis explored the status and role of thermal storage in the energy transition. We find the technology remains a relatively niche approach in the UK subject to complex national and local policy and governance arrangements and the impacts of a stable fossil-based heating regime benefitting from significant lock-in effects. Whilst we acknowledge the limitations of a focus on single technology-systems to deliver the transformative energy system change required, we find thermal storage delivering both local and national benefits to support system balancing and mitigate seasonal peaks in demand, whilst having the potential to deliver other benefits. Promising innovations in business models are helping to enable thermal storage deployment, and these are also applicable to low carbon heat provision more widely.