By continuing to optimise product design and smart capabilities, heat batteries will be critical to the UK’s transition to net zero. This technology can bring low-carbon heating to homes while helping ease pressure on the grid.
Comment: With many homes still reliant on fossil fuel heating systems, Johan du Plessis, CEO of Tepeo, a British clean tech company, looks at how smart heat batteries will help accelerate the transition to low-carbon heat while keeping the electricity grid in balance.
Millions of UK homes could successfully switch to low-carbon electrified heating whilst easing pressure on the electricity grid by using innovative heat battery technology.
The findings demonstrated that heat batteries, as an all-electric low-carbon alternative to fossil fuel boilers, can shift peak energy demand for heating to off-peak times by up to 95%.
Fig. 21. (a) Photograph of the battery pack and heater, and (b) photograph of the battery box inside the thermostatic enclosure . To reduce the energy consumption of batteries during the heating process of EVs, researchers have proposed burner heating methods that utilize alternative energy sources.
In order to heat up the simulated battery from −15 ± 5°C and −20 ±5°C–0°C, less than 300 s and 500 s respectively was required under 40°C heating condition, and 1200 s and 1500 s respectively under 20°C heating condition.