The growing integration of renewable energy sources in the energy grid presents challenges related to intermittency and negative pricing, necessitating large-scale energy storage solutions. Power-to-Heat-to-Power and Carnot Batteries have been receiving great interest in recent years, and are taking advantage of global R&D know-how on turbomachinery and thermal energy storage. This type of storage is an innovative system concept designed to address issues, such as intermittency, by storing energy in the form of heat and increasing temperature levels via temperature lift technologies such as heat pumps and electric heaters, and then delivering power by releasing it via thermal power cycles.
Thanks to the exploitation of rotating machinery and the possibility of storing energy via different thermal energy storage media, Power-to-Heat-to-Power systems and Carnot Batteries can store large amounts of energy without specific geographic constraints (present with pumped hydro storage systems for example) and guarantee electric power management in a stable, reliable, secure, and clean way. Consequently, the global industrial and scientific ecosystem needs to develop advanced technologies and novel methodologies to further develop this type of innovative energy storage.
This Research Topic aims to highlight Power-to-Heat-to-Power and Carnot Batteries research and development and showcase technologies, models, and methodologies that could boost widespread adoption and implementation of the technology.
Welcomed works include applied research, development of new procedures, energy systems (at cycle innovation and components level), original application of existing knowledge, and new design and modelling approaches.
Topics within the area of sustainable electrical power production based on thermo-mechanical storage are relevant to this collection, with the scope of this collection including, but not being limited to, advanced solutions of Power-to-Heat-to-Power systems, LAES, CAES, and other types of Carnot Batteries.
Keywords:
Energy storage, heat pumps, thermal power, clean energy, Carnot Batteries, Power-to-Heat-to-Power
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
The growing integration of renewable energy sources in the energy grid presents challenges related to intermittency and negative pricing, necessitating large-scale energy storage solutions. Power-to-Heat-to-Power and Carnot Batteries have been receiving great interest in recent years, and are taking advantage of global R&D know-how on turbomachinery and thermal energy storage. This type of storage is an innovative system concept designed to address issues, such as intermittency, by storing energy in the form of heat and increasing temperature levels via temperature lift technologies such as heat pumps and electric heaters, and then delivering power by releasing it via thermal power cycles.
Thanks to the exploitation of rotating machinery and the possibility of storing energy via different thermal energy storage media, Power-to-Heat-to-Power systems and Carnot Batteries can store large amounts of energy without specific geographic constraints (present with pumped hydro storage systems for example) and guarantee electric power management in a stable, reliable, secure, and clean way. Consequently, the global industrial and scientific ecosystem needs to develop advanced technologies and novel methodologies to further develop this type of innovative energy storage.
This Research Topic aims to highlight Power-to-Heat-to-Power and Carnot Batteries research and development and showcase technologies, models, and methodologies that could boost widespread adoption and implementation of the technology.
Welcomed works include applied research, development of new procedures, energy systems (at cycle innovation and components level), original application of existing knowledge, and new design and modelling approaches.
Topics within the area of sustainable electrical power production based on thermo-mechanical storage are relevant to this collection, with the scope of this collection including, but not being limited to, advanced solutions of Power-to-Heat-to-Power systems, LAES, CAES, and other types of Carnot Batteries.
Keywords:
Energy storage, heat pumps, thermal power, clean energy, Carnot Batteries, Power-to-Heat-to-Power
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.