cooling with ice storage reduces electrical demand
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236 buildings with more than 20 stories planned for London require cooling.
Our cities are growing....
Constructing more buildings increases PEAK power demand requiring new power stations.
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But PEAK power demand is rarely required.
STORED
Power Demand
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What if we could store energy economically?
This stored energy could be used to meet the peak demand without the need for more power stations
Power Demand
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USED
Buildings require cooling to provide comfort by removing the heat generated by lights, people, computers and the sun.
The CALMAC system takes advantage of low energy demand to make ice which is stored in an array of Ice Tanks.
Peak electrical demand is then reduced by using the energy stored as ice to cool the building.Which also reduces the electrical availability charges for the building.
Infrastructure and business benefits from reduced costs plus there is no need to ‘switch anything off’ and occupants continue to be comfortable and productive....
.... they also save money by utilizing more favorable ‘off peak and other incentive’ Tariffs. Energy consumption is reduced when it’s most expensive and polluting.
In the future when there will be many more renewable energy generating technologies such as wind turbines.
...the alternative is to use stored energy to overcome the fluctuations in power supply from renewables.
The CALMAC solution reduces the need to use dirty, carbon intensive ‘peaking generators’ and ensures that energy generated by renewables is captured.
CALMAC ice tanks have been installed in 4,000 projects world wide since 1979. Shifting 6 GW hrs and reducing peak demand by 1 GW.
1% of installations currently in the UK shifting 60 MWhrs and reducing peak by 10MW.