@incollection{SternerEckertGerhardtetal., author = {Sterner, Michael and Eckert, Fabian and Gerhardt, Norman and Henning, Hans-Martin and Palzer, Andreas}, title = {Heating Supply Storage Requirements}, series = {Handbook of Energy Storage}, booktitle = {Handbook of Energy Storage}, editor = {Sterner, Michael and Stadler, Ingo}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Berlin, Heidelberg}, isbn = {978-3-662-55503-3}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-662-55504-0_4}, pages = {137 -- 163}, abstract = {Unlike the electricity sector, heating and cooling storage requirements have attracted little public attention. This is because these storage requirements have generally already been met, and will not change significantly in the future. In the electricity sector by contrast, there will be a significant shift from primary energy storage to electricity and final energy storage. Both sectors have remarkably high storage requirements. Almost all households have thermal buffers. The same is true of renewable energy heating systems such as pellet heating, geothermal, or solar-thermal systems. Some households with liquid gas or oil heating even have two storage units: a fuel tank and a thermal buffer. Exceptions include heating systems with upstream storage such as district heating or gas storage. In the future, integration of the electricity and heating sectors by combined heat and power (CHP) generation, heat pumps, power-to-heat (PtH), and power-to-gas (PtG) will facilitate the use of renewable energy, and lead to a paradigm shift. Relying on results from various studies, this chapter examines the development of heating supply in Germany and the resulting thermal storage requirements. The chapter's later sections provide surplus and storage potential estimates. Cooling requirements are included as 'process cooling' under 'process heat', and as 'air-conditioning' over 'room heating'. It is primarily integrated into electricity demand.}, language = {en} } @incollection{StadlerBauerBudtetal., author = {Stadler, Ingo and Bauer, Franz and Budt, Marcus and Heindl, Eduard and Wolf, Daniel}, title = {Mechanical Energy Storage}, series = {Handbook of Energy Storage}, booktitle = {Handbook of Energy Storage}, editor = {Sterner, Michael and Stadler, Ingo}, publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, address = {Berlin, Heidelberg}, isbn = {978-3-662-55503-3}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-662-55504-0_9}, pages = {483 -- 561}, abstract = {Chemical-energy storage systems use caverns, porous storage facilities, tanks, and storage rooms to store chemical energy sources. Caverns, caves, and reservoirs can also be used to store gaseous media such as air, liquid media such as water, and solid media such as rock. The principles of mechanical energy storage are based on classical Newtonian mechanics, or in other words on fundamental physics from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As a result, these types of storage are typically divided into two categories; storage of kinetic and potential energy, or storage of 'pressure energy'. In this chapter, storage media is categorized by its aggregate state, and described by its function and application: first compressed air energy storage and then conventional electricity storage—pumped-storage plants. The chapter continues with a discussion of innovative methods of storing potential energy using water as a medium. These include artificially constructed pumped storage, pumped storage in the open sea, dam storage on rivers, pumped storage on heaps in repurposed mining areas, underfloor or underground pumped storage, and surface mine storage. The chapter concludes with a description of classical and modern flywheel energy storage systems. This age-old technology is then compared with a new concept: mechanical stored energy exploiting both pumped storage and change in the potential energy of rocks or large boulders.}, language = {en} } @article{EstermannNewboroughSterner, author = {Estermann, Thomas and Newborough, Marcus N. and Sterner, Michael}, title = {Power-to-gas systems for absorbing excess solar power in electricity distribution networks}, series = {International Journal of Hydrogen Energy}, volume = {41}, journal = {International Journal of Hydrogen Energy}, number = {32}, publisher = {Elsevier}, doi = {10.1016/j.ijhydene.2016.05.278}, pages = {13950 -- 13959}, abstract = {The feasibility of implementing power-to-gas systems, to absorb surplus solar power from electricity distribution networks and carbon dioxide from biomass anaerobic digestion (AD) plant, in order to produce synthetic methane was investigated for a region of Southern Germany that has a high solar power penetration. The analysis was based on time series electricity data for 2012 from which future load profiles were computed in accordance with the expected installed capacities of solar power across the period 2015-2025. The electrolyser capacity required to absorb 20\% of excess solar energy occurring within the region's low voltage network in 2025 was estimated to be 370 MWe. First order considerations of the region's gas grid, electricity network and existing AD sites suggest that such a deployment could be achieved by installing sub-MW (and some multi-MW) power-to-gas plant at several hundred AD sites.}, language = {en} } @incollection{StadlerEckert, author = {Stadler, Ingo and Eckert, Fabian}, title = {Load Management as an Energy Storage System}, series = {Handbook of Energy Storage}, booktitle = {Handbook of Energy Storage}, editor = {Sterner, Michael and Stadler, Ingo}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Berlin, Heidelberg}, isbn = {978-3-662-55503-3}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-662-55504-0_11}, pages = {611 -- 636}, abstract = {Chapters 6 to 9 focused on storage systems that store electric energy in a range of forms, and then release the energy again as electric energy. Chapter 10 discussed the use of thermal-energy storage (TES) systems for thermal management. This chapter examines management methods. These methods use processes that typically convert electric energy into another form of final energy that can also be stored. This form of energy is often thermal energy. But unlike with the systems discussed in previous chapters, here the energy stored is not converted back into electricity. Instead, the energy is used and stored in the same form. From the point of view of the energy supply system, these management methods perform exactly the same function as energy storage systems. This chapter discusses load-management in general, then potential uses of load-management, and finally, current trends.}, language = {en} } @article{ThemaSternerLencketal., author = {Thema, Martin and Sterner, Michael and Lenck, Thorsten and G{\"o}tz, Philipp}, title = {Necessity and Impact of Power-to-gas on Energy Transition in Germany}, series = {Energy Procedia}, volume = {99}, journal = {Energy Procedia}, publisher = {Elsevier}, doi = {10.1016/j.egypro.2016.10.129}, pages = {392 -- 400}, abstract = {The present paper gives an outlook on a bandwidth of required installed power-to-gas capacity in the German power sector fed by 100\% renewable generation until 2050. Two scenarios were simulated to quantify cost effects of power-to-gas on the electricity system: once with, once without additional short-term flexibility options to a system using fossil natural gas as sole flexibility option instead. As a result, at latest in 2035, power-to-gas capacity expansion has to take place to reach required installed capacities of up to 89-134 GW in 2050. Application of power-to-gas as long-term flexibility leads to cost savings of up to 11,7-19 bn Euro enabling a fully renewable system in 2050.}, language = {en} } @misc{OPUS4-3815, title = {Handbook of Energy Storage}, editor = {Sterner, Michael and Stadler, Ingo}, edition = {Translation of 2nd German edition Sterner, „Stadler Energiespeicher - Bedarf, Technologien, Integration"}, publisher = {Springer-Nature}, address = {Heidelberg, Berlin, New York}, isbn = {978-3-662-55503-3}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-662-55504-0}, abstract = {There are several approaches to classifying energy storage systems (see Chaps. 1 and 2). Storage systems are used in a large number of different technologies at various stages of development, and in a wide range of application areas (see Chaps. 3 to 5). This chapter compares the capabilities of the different storage systems using the following criteria:This comparison of storage systems also provides a convenient overview of the various storage systems and their capabilities.}, language = {en} } @misc{ThemaBellackWeidlichetal., author = {Thema, Martin and Bellack, Annett and Weidlich, Tobias and Huber, Harald and Karl, J{\"u}rgen and Sterner, Michael}, title = {Optimierung biologischer CO2-Methanisierung im Rieselbett-Reaktor}, series = {4. Regensburger Energiekongress, Regensburg 26.-27.02.2019}, journal = {4. Regensburger Energiekongress, Regensburg 26.-27.02.2019}, language = {de} } @misc{ThemaBauerSterner, author = {Thema, Martin and Bauer, Franz and Sterner, Michael}, title = {Power-to-Gas world status report}, series = {International Renewable Energy Storage Conference, D{\"u}sseldorf 14.-16.03.2019}, journal = {International Renewable Energy Storage Conference, D{\"u}sseldorf 14.-16.03.2019}, language = {de} } @misc{Sterner, author = {Sterner, Michael}, title = {Sektorenkopplung mit Solarstrom: Theorie und Praxis}, series = {17. Nationale Photovoltaik-Tagung, Kursaal Bern, Schweiz 26.03.2019}, journal = {17. Nationale Photovoltaik-Tagung, Kursaal Bern, Schweiz 26.03.2019}, language = {de} } @misc{Sterner, author = {Sterner, Michael}, title = {Ohne Speicher, Wasserstoff und Power-to-X keine Dekarbonisierung von Verkehr und Industrie - M{\"o}glichkeiten und Notwendigkeit der integrierten Sektorenkopplung}, series = {CIGRE/CIRED Informationsveranstaltung 2020, Leipzig, 13.10.2020}, journal = {CIGRE/CIRED Informationsveranstaltung 2020, Leipzig, 13.10.2020}, language = {de} }