Thermal storage systems can contribute to increasing the share of Green Heat. MGTES applications: Heat to Heat and/or Power to Heat
Green Heat Storage is one of the key to fight climate change. Industrial heat constitutes for most of the industrial energy request and most of direct industrial CO2 emitted every year.
One of the latest analyses on the subject goes back to the International Energy Agency's (IEA) World Energy Outlook 2017, which points out that industrial heat accounts for two-thirds of industrial energy demand and almost one-fifth of global energy consumption. And that as industrial heat demand continues to grow, so does its share of CO2 emissions, accounting for a quarter of global emissions by 2040.
On the basis of these data, it is on Green Heat that we shall bet on to combat climate change and implement the energy transition. But industrial heat is often missing from energy analyses, regulations and policies. Also the Cop26 deal makes no mention of the importance of green heat.
Among the first technologies that can contribute to increasing the share of Green Heat are Thermal Storage systems, accompanied by renewable energy installations such as photovoltaics and wind power.
More specifically, MGTES - Magaldi Green Thermal Energy Storage (https://www.magaldigreenenergy.com/en/applications/green-heat-production), delivers Heat to Heat and/or Power to Heat, useful for different applications and market segments including the industrial sector, district heating and so on.
For these applications, MGTES is able to contribute to the flexibilisation of the electricity grid and to absorb the surplus of electricity generated by renewable energy plants, convert this surplus into heat through electrical resistances, release the heat when necessary and convert it back into electricity.
Combined with renewable energy, MGTES can generate constant green heat and contribute to replace traditional fossil fuel generation. Thus, MGTES will dramatically help to reduce CO2 emissions.
Franco Donatini, Professor at the University of Pisa, explains in an interview published in the Magaldi Green Energy blog (https://www.magaldigreenenergy.com/en/franco-donatini-green-heat-crucial-combat-climate-change), that MGTES in addition to offering “considerable efficiency, flexybility and security, with low costs that make it competitive on a large scale and has high capacities”, it projects Magaldi Group towards levels of attention to the ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) philosophy “always higher”.
MGTES – said Donatini – “uses sand as a storage material, a clean material perfectly compatible with the environment, as well as steel plant structures, it is free of polluting materials and totally recyclable at the end of life. Technological sustainability due to the absence of special elements that are of limited availability in the underground, or that request in the costruction, disposal or recycling phase complex and energy-expensive processes”.
