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The State of the Art for Technologies Used to Decrease Demand in Buildings: Thermal Energy Storage

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The high energy consumption in the building sector, especially for heating and cooling, has promoted new and more restrictive energy policies around the world, such as the new European Directive 2010/31/EU on the energy consumption of buildings. Apart from enforcing stringent building codes that include minimum energy consumption for new and refurbished buildings, the IEA ETP 2012 highlights the necessity of using highly efficient technologies in the envelopes, equipment, and new strategies to address the high energy consumption of the sector. In this context, the use of appropriate thermal energy storage (TES) systems has a high potential to reduce the energy demand for both heating and cooling. The use of TES in the building sector not only leads to the rational use of thermal energy, which reduces the energy demand, but allows peak load shifting strategies, as well as manages the gap between possible renewable energy production and heating/cooling demands. In this chapter, various available technologies are analyzed where sensible, latent, or thermochemical storages are implemented in either active, passive, or hybrid building systems.

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This study was partially funded by the Spanish Government (ENE2011-22722, ENE2011-28269-C03-02, and ULLE10-4E-1305). The authors would like to thank the Catalan Government for the quality accreditation given to their research group GREA (2014 SGR 123) and DIOPMA (2014 SGR 1543). The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013), under grant agreement No. PIRSES-GA-2013-610692 (INNOSTORAGE).

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de Gracia, A., Barreneche, C., Fernández, A.I., Cabeza, L.F. (2016). The State of the Art for Technologies Used to Decrease Demand in Buildings: Thermal Energy Storage . In: Boemi, SN., Irulegi, O., Santamouris, M. (eds) Energy Performance of Buildings. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20831-2_16

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