Power
Summary
For most of the last century, electricity and heat have been planned and regulated as two separate systems, a design choice that made sense when both were produced by burning fuel on demand. However, that design is a poor match for how the grid actually runs today. Generation, transmission constraints, and price all shift by the hour, while a building’s need for heating, cooling, or hot water follows its own separate schedule. Sector coupling closes that gap by giving grid operators a way to turn surplus electricity into stored heat instead of losing it.
Sector coupling, linking the electric grid to the heating and cooling systems in buildings, is the industry’s answer, and district energy is the most proven way to make it real.
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