Fighting Air Conditioning’s Peak Demand With Thermal Energy Storage
A warming world is gearing up to install 1.6 billion new air conditioners by 2050, which will require an
additional 4.8 trillion kWhs of electricity every year, mostly during
peak energy demand in the hottest part of the day. But thermal energy
storage can offset that peak by using
off-peak energy
during the night to make cold water, or even ice, and storing inside
energy storage tanks. The stored ice is then used to cool the building’s
occupants the next day.
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