ANGUS+

Cavern flight Field of salt rock caverns (Lars Bilke, Norbert Grunwald, Michael Nolde, Malte Schwanebeck,  Rainer Duttmann (UFZ+CAU)) Project title: Auswirkungen der Nutzung des geologischen Untergrundes als thermischer, elektrischer oder stofflicher Speicher – Dimensionierung, Risikoanalyse und Auswirkungsprognosen
(Project title – English translation: Impacts of the use of the geological subsurface for energy storage in the form of gas and heat - dimensioning, risk analysis and prediction of impacts)

Short project description:
Large-scale energy storage is a requirement to overcome the natural temporal fluctuations associated with energy production from renewable sources. One of many approaches of energy storage is the conversion of electrical energy into secondary energy carriers such as hydrogen, methane or compressed air. Subsurface storage formations such as saline aquifers, depleted gas reservoirs or artificial salt caverns show a large storage potential for those energy carriers. The ANGUS+ Project investigates the possible impacts of subsurface energy storage on the underground. Therefore, numerical models are used to simulate various scenarios of energy storage operations and their implications. These models are parametrised based on literature studies and laboratory experiments. Based on these investigations, new concepts of underground spatial planning and guidelines on subsurface energy storage will be developed by the project partners.

Project duration: 07/12 – 12/16

Funding organisation: BMBF

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Project partners:

  • Christian Albrechts Universität zu Kiel (CAU) – coordinator
  • Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ
  • Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
  • Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB)

At the UFZ, research for this project was also conducted at the Department Monitoring and Exploration Technologies.

At the Department of Environmental Informatics, research for this project was conducted at the workgroup Computational Energy Systems.

Project website: http://angusplus.de/

This research was also part of the OpenGeoSys initiative (www.opengeosys.org).

Final report for the UFZ: https://www.tib.eu/de/suchen/id/TIBKAT%3A1000642933