Story2020

story is a european project demonstrating new energy storage technologies and their benefits in distribution systems, involving 18 partner institutions in 8 different european countries. with the development of our society, the demand for energy, in particular electricity, is ever-increasing. to be able to produce electricity when the renewable sources are available and to use electricity when we need it, improved energy storage solutions are needed. our challenge is to demonstrate and evaluate innovative approaches for thermal and electrical energy storage systems and to find affordable and reliable solutions that lead to an increased electricity self-supply. story consists of eight demonstration cases each with different local / small-scale storage concepts and technologies, covering industrial and residential environments. these demonstrations feed into a large-scale impact assessment, with the central question being: “what could be the added value of storage in the electricity dist