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Assessing Waste Heat Utilization in Power-to-Heat-to-Power Storage Systems for Cost-Effective Building Electrification
Alicia L\'opez-Ceballos, Alejandro Datas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19403

Assessing Waste Heat Utilization in Power-to-Heat-to-Power Storage Systems for Cost-Effective Building Electrification
Fully electrifying the building sector requires not only the widespread adoption of photovoltaic (PV) self-consumption and heat pumps, but also the integration of cost-effective energy storage solutions. Hybridizing lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries with power to heat to power storage (PHPS) systems, thermal batteries capable of thermal-to-electric energy conversion, offers a promising and economically viable solution. PHPS systems dispatch combined heat and power by utilizing the low-temperature …

Belgian startup nox.energy, one 🚀 to watch in the smart energy space, has launched its new tool to optimize heat pumps: smart control based on weather forecast, to increase solar self-consumption, for (static/dynamic) tariff optimization and additional flexibility trading as independent aggregator
https://app.nox.energy

Domestic Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

Domestic Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022)
A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

I totally should have got a heat pump when we replaced our furnace a few years ago but a) the folks we bought from (who sell heat pumps) said not to, b) my electrician said not to, and c) the rebate/inspection process was extremely confusing to navigate.
https://mstdn.ca/@Sanderde/11468944577

Coordination of Electrical and Heating Resources by Self-Interested Agents
Rico Schrage, Jari Radler, Astrid Nie{\ss}e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16277 htt…

Coordination of Electrical and Heating Resources by Self-Interested Agents
With the rise of distributed energy resources and sector coupling, distributed optimization can be a sensible approach to coordinate decentralized energy resources. Further, district heating, heat pumps, cogeneration, and sharing concepts like local energy communities introduce the potential to optimize heating and electricity output simultaneously. To solve this issue, we tackle the distributed multi-energy scheduling optimization problem, which describes the optimization of distributed energy…

Domestic Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

Domestic Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022)
A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

£13.2bn fund to fix draughty homes and install heat pumps and solar panels.
Nothing else that I can see on reduction of energy demand.
And here is the money being wasted:
'£30bn in investment in nuclear power, about half on the Sizewell C reactor'
Small tidal schemes in the Mersey, Severn and other estuaries would give a better, and safer, approach to "always on" energy supply.

Electricity instead of heat
Axel Kleidon, Harald Lesch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12714 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.12714

Electricity instead of heat
The energy transition is also about switching to electricity-based technologies such as heat pumps and electric mobility. They avoid heat as an intermediate step and are therefore much more efficient. This can significantly reduce the demand for primary energy in the future, which can then be fully covered by the expansion of renewable energies. Entropy and the maximum possible combustion temperature can be used to understand why combustion is so inefficient.

"New UK planning rules for heat pumps come into effect, one meter rule scrapped"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #HeatPumps #Energy

New UK planning rules for heat pumps come into effect, one meter rule scrapped
Change to planning law could simplify heat pump installation process for thousands of households in England. Limits on the size and number of heat pumps that can be installed have also been raised. The changes have been introduced as the UK government pursues 600,000 installations per year by 2028 target.

ASHP: Domestic Air-Source Heat Pumps - Ensure that your ASHP installation is greener than mains natural gas for central heating and hot water (CH/DHW) in the UK. #ASHP #heatpump -

ASHP: Domestic Air-Source Heat Pumps
Ensure that your ASHP installation is greener than mains natural gas for central heating and hot water (CH/DHW) in the UK. #ASHP #heatpump

Future Deployment and Flexibility of Distributed Energy Resources in the Distribution Grids of Switzerland
Lorenzo Zapparoli, Alfredo Oneto, Mar\'ia Parajeles Herrera, Blazhe Gjorgiev, Gabriela Hug, Giovanni Sansavini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08724

Future Deployment and Flexibility of Distributed Energy Resources in the Distribution Grids of Switzerland
The decarbonization goals worldwide drive the energy transition of power distribution grids, which operate under increasingly volatile conditions and closer to their technical limits. In this context, localized operational data with high temporal and spatial resolution is essential for their effective planning and regulation. Nevertheless, information on grid-connected distributed energy resources, such as electric vehicles, photovoltaic systems, and heat pumps, is often fragmented, inconsisten…

Good article on some of the UK developments enabling aggregators (virtual lead parties) to unlock more demand side flexibility, including residential (heat pumps, batteries, EVs).
https://www.greenexecutives.com/post/unlocking-th…

Unlocking the Future of Energy: How UK Flex Markets Are Reshaping the Grid
With more renewable energy—especially wind and solar—being integrated than ever before, maintaining balance between supply and demand in real time is a growing challenge. That’s where flex markets come in - and everyone from business to consumers is invited to have a seat at the table.

A mix of long-duration hydrogen and thermal storage enables large-scale electrified heating in a renewable European energy system
Felix Schmidt, Alexander Roth, Wolf-Peter Schill
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21516

A mix of long-duration hydrogen and thermal storage enables large-scale electrified heating in a renewable European energy system
Hydrogen-based long-duration electricity storage (LDES) is a key component of renewable energy systems to deal with seasonality and prolonged periods of low wind and solar energy availability. In this paper, we investigate how electrified heating with heat pumps impacts LDES requirements in a fully renewable European energy system, and which role thermal storage can play. Using a large weather dataset of 78 weather years, we find that electrified heating significantly increases LDES needs, as o…