System building block in intelligent energy management in the model region Bavaria/Austria — From research and development to demonstration and innovation

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The two pillars for the success of the energy transition are energy efficiency and the increase in the share of renewable energies. A very high proportion of energy is used for heating and cooling buildings. In this context, Thermal Component Activation (TBA) is a technology that can contribute significantly and costly to the achievement of the aforementioned objectives. Renewable energies are volatile, so it is particularly important to create storage possibilities. The TBA makes it possible to operate buildings flexibly: Energy is stored, for example, by means of heat pump and TBA in the massive building parts when it is currently available. It is delivered time-shifted by comfortable radiant heat. In the field of component activation, research and development has been carried out for many years, from theoretical foundations, such as the development of a computational core for simulation, through the creation of first isolated demonstration buildings In a wide range of applications, the TBA enables CO2-reduced heating and cooling and can relieve the grid in the form of many decentralised storage systems by turning buildings with their components into a part of the energy grids. How these properties can be further optimised and how TBA can be integrated into district heating networks or microgrids or applied to refurbishment projects are questions that should be clarified in this research and innovation project. The aim of the project is to make this cost-effective key technology more widely known and ultimately to make it possible to make flagship projects visible, to show future potentials in this area for the economy and to identify normative or legal barriers or to develop solutions for them.

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