Advances in Underground Energy Storage for Renewable Energy Sources
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 41249
Special Issue Editors
Interests: energy storage; underground energy storage; geothermal; mine water; closed mines; hydrogeology
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Interests: compressed air energy storage; biomass and biofuels; pumped-storage hydropower; solar photovoltaic and geothermal uses with mine water
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the transient energy context, the increasing penetration of variable renewable energies, such as wind or solar photovoltaic in the electricity mix, requires flexible energy storage systems to balance supply and demand. Large amounts of electricity could be stored using underground space with low environmental impacts. For this purpose, underground pumped-storage hydropower (UPSH), compressed air energy storage (CAES), hydrogen energy storage (HES), underground thermal energy storage (UTES), or gravity energy storage (GES) systems could be developed in disused or new underground structures. This Special Issue will address research on the machinery design, geomechanical analysis of the underground infrastructure, the thermodynamic performance, the geology and hydrogeology, the public acceptance, the environmental impact, the operation modes, the electrical market, the legal regulation, the round trip energy efficiency and the economic feasibility of underground energy storage plants. We would also like to invite authors to address the global potential for expanding underground energy storage systems around the world and to develop specific case studies.
Prof. Dr. Jorge Loredo
Dr. Javier Menéndez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- energy storage
- underground pumped storage hydropower
- compressed air energy storage
- gravity energy storage
- hydrogen energy storage
- underground thermal energy storage
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