
Electric energy storage for heat can be achieved through electric storage heaters1and electric thermal storage heaters2:Electric storage heaters use electricity to generate heat and store it inside their core, often made from heavy clay blocks.Electric thermal storage heaters are stand-alone, off-peak heating systems that store heat in specially designed, high-density ceramic bricks for extended periods. [pdf]

There are several types of STES technology, covering a range of applications from single small buildings to community district heating networks. Generally, efficiency increases and the specific construction cost decreases with size. UTES (underground thermal energy storage), in which the storage medium may be geological strata ranging from earth or sand to solid bedrock, or aquifers. UTES technologies include: [pdf]
Image showing heat loss from a house. New research on thermal energy storage could lead to summer heat being stored for use in winter. Credit: Active Building Centre, Swansea University Funding to research thermal energy storage that could cut bills and boost renewables.
Generally speaking, seasonal thermal energy storage can be used by storing summer heat for winter use or storing winter cold for summer use, i.e., summer heat for winter use and winter cold for summer use. Common seasonal heat storage includes seasonal sensible heat storage, seasonal latent heat storage, and seasonal thermochemical heat storage.
Revelation of economic competitiveness of STES against existing heating options. Seasonal thermal energy storage (STES) holds great promise for storing summer heat for winter use. It allows renewable resources to meet the seasonal heat demand without resorting to fossil-based back up. This paper presents a techno-economic literature review of STES.
Direct seasonal thermal energy storage is more complicated because of the large number of PCMs storage units installed inside the tank and the high cost of heat insulation. Therefore, most of the current direct latent heat storage is based on short-term heat storage, and very few studies are aimed at long-term heat storage. Fig. 2.
Common seasonal heat storage includes seasonal sensible heat storage, seasonal latent heat storage, and seasonal thermochemical heat storage. Among them, both sensible and latent heat are used to store solar energy directly in the material.
Warm-temperature seasonal heat stores can be created using borehole fields to store surplus heat captured in summer to actively raise the temperature of large thermal banks of soil so that heat can be extracted more easily (and more cheaply) in winter.

Thermal energy storage (TES) is the storage of for later reuse. Employing widely different technologies, it allows surplus thermal energy to be stored for hours, days, or months. Scale both of storage and use vary from small to large – from individual processes to district, town, or region. Usage examples are the balancing of energy demand between daytime and nighttim. Thermal energy storage or thermal stores are vessels used to store excess heat generated from a domestic renewable heating system. A thermal store is a way of storing and managing renewable heat until it is needed. Heated water is usually stored in a large, well-insulated cylinder often called a buffer or accumulator tank. [pdf]
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