PowerWeb Lecture: “Heating and cooling: often forgotten but cannot be ignored”

By:

Phil Vardon, Professor of Energy Geomechanics at the faculty of Civil Enineering and Geosciences (TU Delft); and Martin Bloemendal, Assistant Professor of Underground Thermal Energy Storage at the faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences (TU Delft) and at KWR.

Date: Wednesday 15 March 2023
Time: 12:45-13:30 (free lunch from 12:15)
Location: Faculty of EWI, Mekelweg 4 (Chip Hall)
Moderator: Dr Francesco Lombardi

Video recording of the lecture

Available at this link on Collegerama.

Abstract

At present, heating and cooling represent around 50% of the final energy demand in Europe and are mainly supplied by fossil fuel derived energy. Decarbonisation of heating and cooling is therefore important, and usually requires transport, storage and/or conversion of locally available heat sources. Additionally, the ongoing electrification of the heating and cooling systems offers opportunities for utilisation optimisation of renewably produced electricity and grid management, also requiring storage and conversion of heat. Due to the large inertia in heat systems, transport, conversion and storage comes with complex control and scheduling problems across various scientific fields. In the lecture, prof. dr. Vardon and dr. Bloemendal will briefly take you through the current heating and cooling research directions they are taking and examples of how the heat and electricity system are becoming increasingly integrated and what solutions exist to optimally utilise available renewable electricity and heat.