With the help of the T!Raum initiative ‘Innovation Lab: Storage for the Utilisation of Renewable Energy in the True North’ (Inno!Nord), an environment is to be developed within which the right development decisions can be made for the creation of energy storage systems. Various storage technologies suitable for the region are to be developed, trialled and ultimately transferred to practical application.
In the workshop project ‘Open Heat Storage Planning’ (OWP), the planning of heat storage in heat supply networks is to be made transparent and comprehensible for all stakeholders involved with the help of open tools. This can strengthen acceptance and decision-making power, accelerate the implementation of specific projects and, above all, avoid bad investments in poorly dimensioned energy storage systems.
In recent years, ZNES has collaboratively developed simulation and optimisation tools that can be used to plan the design and operation of thermal plants and systems. Among other things, these tools have already been used in transfer projects to support the regional practice partners involved in the assessment of key technologies for the heating transition. Because the energy transition in the electricity sector is already very advanced in northern Schleswig-Holstein, sector coupling and heat storage were of great importance in the projects.
As this is open-source software with open data, the planning tools have spread quickly in the scientific community, but other groups find it difficult to intuitively access them on their own. The aim of the project is therefore to further develop the tools so that they can be used by as many people involved in planning as possible in a low-threshold and needs-based manner in order to jointly dimension and optimise the operation of heat storage in sustainable heat supply systems.
