Additional cooling for offices, industrial processes or data centers. Cold local heating for neighborhoods
These conditions make investing in an ice storage system to expand the cooling capacity of existing refrigeration technology particularly economical:
- Large differences in the daily load profile of cooling demand
- Demand-based electricity tariffs (day and night tariffs)
- Cooling system redundancy requirements (critical cooling processes, data centres, manufacturing, hospitals)
- High power connection demand to meet peak loads
- Large number of chillers to meet peak demand
- Easy expansion of cooling systems with additional chillers limited by infrastructure
The application scenarios for ice storage systems to realize energy saving potentials and implement climate neutrality targets are diverse.
What makes ice storage technology so attractive
- Reduction of electrical operating costs
- Reduction of electrical load peaks
- Reduction of the electricity power price
- Shifting cooling production to favourable tariff times (night time)
- Shifting cold production to times of day with low outside temperatures
- Secure cooling supply (emergency cooling) in the event of a power failure
- Favourable low-load behaviour
