This video describes Ice Energy's disruptive thermal storage technology (TES) with solutions for utility, commercial, industrial and residential customers.
That's is super cool, are the ice packs inside thermal insulators? Like thermal cups to maximize the desired temperature without the outside elements or tempature from robbing or surging it's energy.
Yes, demand for electricity drops way down at night, and demand peaks right after people get home from work and turn on the AC. So, this helps smooth out the demand load. It should do well with wind power, as nights are often windier.
I'm guessing alot of ppl would use it with solar, as a dump load, when all is charged, put the pv to work when it has nothing to do, it can be making ice!!! I think I'll give this a go!! Along with a solar water heater! For when my ice is well, ice!!
The problem with these promotional videos is that they never tell you how much money their customers save, what is the payback period, what is the net CO2 emissions/savings. I will believe them when they will show me these numbers.
I'm late to this party, but here's my opinion: Storing cold is the oldest form of air conditioning. incorporated in buildings for millennia. making a retrofit system, though complex, is clever and is suitable for high rises or glass facade buildings. For homes, proper building codes exist to store night cold and insulate homes so they don't need AC at all or only very little. If you live in an aluminium sided 4X4 house with a slapped on AC to make the indoors tolerable. You live in a country where electricity is not properly taxed.
