The project aims to develop and validate four innovative sets of thermal energy storage (TES) concepts based on PCM and TCM solutions, addressing heating, cooling, domestic hot water (DHW), and hybrid services through a smart aggregator and an open-source multi-service platform. The project seeks to design, manufacture, and characterize modular, plug-and-play TES solutions for daily to monthly storage with multiple functions, and to develop optimized control strategies at the TES, aggregation, and community levels for efficient operation and energy service provision. 

The project aims to enable charging of the thermo-chemical material (TCM) storage before the heating season, either in autumn or during summer nights using an integrated buffer tank, and to supply space heating for at least four weeks in winter. It also seeks to improve heat and mass transfer rates by 50%, reduce the vessel volume by 30%, increase energy density by 50%, and lower the storage cost per kWh by 10% compared to current TCM storage designs.

The project’s goal is to develop and demonstrate novel modular, compact, high performances and Plug&Play thermal energy storage (TES) solutions for heating, cooling and domestic hot water (DWH) production, able to provide electricity load shifting with meaningful peak shaving of the thermal and electric load demands.