The Geothermal Energy Buffer (GEB) project

The Geothermal Energy Buffer project is a storage system and a management process for an underground stored energy.
This underground energy buffer solution is designed with positive externalities characteristics, and it’s comparable to hydroelectricity. It provides at a grid scale, an unprecedented and competitive emission free power generation solution, available several hours a day.
GEB underground energy storage solution offers power production comparable to hydroelectricity in term of power and dispatchability. Its main objectives are the improved grid management for supply vs. demand of electricity and the hybridization with other sources of energy of the electricity network, whether renewable or not.
The GEB process which implements this system is a modeled energy stock management. This optimized geothermal energy management is adjusted in order to perpetually produce energy.
GEB has the characteristic of generating electricity without contingency but with production time constraints. The buffer storage volume is calculated in the way to ensure a permanent availability of energy production in the order of 8 hours per day.
Main application for this power production will be the compensation of the meteorological intermittence of wind and solar power generation, as well as the management of daily peaks of consumption.
Potentially, GEB can be set in many parts of the globe, the only feasibility condition is geological: the presence of a sedimentary basin.
Finally, GEB is probably today one of the few energy solutions with remarkable positive externalities because:
• It removes carbon (as a potential pollutant) from the energy market, in such a way that it can be usefully and permanently stored underground,
• It advantageously replaces storage and production systems with less favorable GHG balances,
• It also enables the development of other intermittent RNE’s, such as wind and photovoltaics, by offering them a clean and renewable compensation solution.
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