THERMAL STORAGE COUPLED TO A GROUND SOURCE HEAT PUMP IN A PUBLIC SERVICES BUILDING

Thermal storage may be a part attractive approach in service sector particularly for space conditioning, since it can help to reduce the electricity costs taking advantage of variable electricity rates while helping the grid to overcome the intermittent output of renewa energy. The aim of this paper is to describe globally the thermal storage system, which will be coupled to the ground source heat pump (GSHP installed in a public building in Coimbra within European Project from FP7 - Ground project aims to demonstrate a high performance factor for ground source heat pumps (GSHP) that will be installed in pilot buildings in southern Europe.