HEAT BATTERY ESTIMATOR FROM A2EP

Together with Aratherm, we are excited to launch the Heat Battery Estimator! This new online tool will help Australian manufacturers to explore utilising electric heat storage to reduce gas costs and emissions.

With just a few basic inputs on current process heat demands and gas use for heat, the Heat Battery Estimator provides the cost and emission savings offered by electric thermal batteries of different capacities.

“Australia has an abundance of excess renewable electricity during the day. There’s a range of heat battery technologies available right now which industrial energy users could charge up during these times of zero or negative-cost electricity to supply decarbonised heat around the clock for their processes,” said Jarrod Leak, Chief Executive Officer of A2EP.

“The Heat Battery Estimator provides powerful information for Australian manufacturers to start considering these clean heat options to reduce the impact and risk of fossil gas costs and emissions to their businesses. The tool also shows the impact of network tariffs on the economics of implementing a heat battery and the urgent need for all network operators to be offering flexible demand connections.”

The tool will help energy users understand the operational costs for a heat battery in a hybrid set-up complimenting existing gas boiler systems operating in the Australian National Electricity Market.

“Not many people realise that right now in Australia electric heat options can be cheaper than gas,” says Dr Nathan Steggel, Director of Aratherm.

“Amidst the uncertainty around gas supply and costs, the Heat Battery Estimator will let manufacturing and energy managers understand how they can use renewable heat batteries to control costs and improve their energy resilience.”

Try the free online Heat Battery Estimator now.

The Heat Battery Estimator was developed with the support of an Innovation Connect grant from the Canberra Innovation Network.