KNOWLEDGE · MARKET & CONTEXT
Heat storage in a changing energy market
In this section we look at the broader context: how do thermal storage, grid congestion, feed-in costs and subsidies relate, and what does that mean for housing corporations, municipalities and builders?
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District heating or your own installation: when does which one win?
In the Netherlands, district heating networks are still presented as the logical solution for the built environment. The question of when a heat network actually performs better than individual solutions — technically, economically and socially — is rarely asked out loud. In plans for gas-free neighbourhoods the heat network is a much-used instrument. Municipalities, housing…
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Fifty years without degradation: what service life really means
A storage system that is still standing neatly in the garden after twenty years but only reaches sixty per cent of its original capacity is not sustainable. It simply has not broken yet. That distinction is systematically underrated in energy engineering. When service life comes up, attention usually goes to whether a system still functions.…
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Grid congestion: where is that electricity supposed to go?
In more and more places in the Netherlands, solar panels and wind turbines temporarily have nowhere to send their electricity. The grid is full. Installations are curtailed or switched off, generated energy evaporates, and in some cases owners of generating capacity will eventually pay for the privilege of feeding in. In the media, grid congestion…