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THE HEAT VAULT

IMAGINE SECURING THE ANNUAL SUPPLY OF ENERGY FOR ALL OF MANHATTAN AS HEAT, DEEP BENEATH ONE THIRD OF CENTRAL PARK

The Heat Vault is an underground energy store within naturally occurring rocks in the form of heat.

It can be constructed almost anywhere.

 

The store comprises an architecture of multiple deep boreholes, some to input heat, others to extract it.

 

The energy input can be from various waste heat sources or can be waste or excess electricity from the power grid or from dedicated renewable power sources.

 

Heat Vault collects energy in off-peak hours or in seasons with low energy demand at low cost.

Energy storage can be for days, weeks, months, years or even decades, something unattainable by any other method.

It supplies energy at peak times or peak seasons which have high energy demand.

 

Because it is completely decoupled from global hydrocarbon price volatility, supply can be at reasonable cost to consumers to suit need.

 

Heat is one direct output. But coupled with other assets above ground, Heat Vault can also supply cooling, electricity or green hydrogen.

 

And because it is modular, it can be built to match requirements, including the large infrastructure markets at gigawatt-hour or terawatt-hour scale, something unachievable by other types of storage at favourable cost. 

W H A T  H E A T  V A U L T  I S

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THE HEAT VAULT IS LIKE A BANK INTO WHICH DEPOSITS OF GREEN ENERGY ARE DEEP STORED WHEN MOST AVAILABLE AT LEAST COST AND FROM WHICH THEY CAN BE WITHDRAWN WHENEVER NEEDED

ENERGY ARBITRAGE

Solves Renewables Intermittency

Eliminates Curtailment

Improves Solar efficiency

Recycles and augments industrial heat

Decarbonises Heat Networks

Enhances Geothermal Energy use

Accelerates Renewables adoption

Repurposes power utility assets

Removes Nuclear Heat excess

 

 

STORES VAST ENERGY FOR DECADES

W H A T  H E A T  V A U L T  D O E S

H E A T  V A U L T  
A R C H I T E C T U R E

H E A T  V A U L T  I S  C O O L

ROCKS ARE GOOD AT STORING HOT OR COLD ENERGY
HEAT VAULT CAN TAKE THE PATH TO HOT OR COLD
OR DO BOTH TOGETHER

CHILL IN THE HEAT

WARM IN THE COLD

Proof of concept in Sweden

Patents Granted

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Proof of concept in Sweden

Patents Granted

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H E A T  V A U L T  I S
BIGGER, CHEAPER AND LONGER LASTING THAN OTHER STORAGE 

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