New applications of energy storage in electric-heating and -cooling systems

Conference · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1980

OSTI ID:5187520

Asbury, J. G.

Electricity, in combination with appropriate load-management techniques, is a cost-effective method of providing building heating and cooling services. Storage systems that enable the use of nighttime, off-peak, energy to meet the following day's load are among the most-promising load-management techniques. Studies at Argonne evaluated the total cost of providing space-heating and -cooling services with electricity and then compared these costs with oil and gas-based systems. Detailed cost-allocation models were used to compute gas- and electric-utility costs of supply. The ANL SIMSTOR model, which uses hourly synoptic load and weather data, represents a robust methodology for estimating the long-run marginal costs of supplying device-specific electric loads. A number of different electric technologies were evaluated including: electric storage heating, storage air conditioning, dual-fuel heating, and solar heating with electric backup. An important finding is that several electric-based heating technologies are cost-competitive with oil and natural gas heating.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 5187520
• Report Number(s): CONF-800210-4
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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