Churches as flexibility resources in the future power system

This project aims at developing a new approach and methodology for heat regulation, to be applied in intermittently heated churches, which is expected to yield more efficient heating control in Sweden's 3300 churches. The approach will also maintain better indoor climate in the buildings and thereby contribute to their preservation.

Most of these churches are rapid-heated, with electricity as the main power source and could, when following this new approach, contribute actively to the ongoing transformation of the Swedish power system by means of peak shaving, energy efficiency and the provision of flexibility services to the power grid.

This scientifically based heat regulation approach will also be used to develop a new tool to assess the power needs of heating systems for intermittently heated churches. The project also includes a practical proof of concept and evaluation of the heat regulation systems in four churches, one church with batteries and three without.