The advantages are:
- The capital costs from 0,1 EUR pro kWh for the storage
- Less use of filling martial, graut, lower cost
- No insulation material necessary in top of storage
- Drilling length up to 300 m
- Use of standard pipe/hose, lower cost
- Storage can be built under already used perimeters, building, parking lots sun collector areas etc.
- Lower impact during construction, less mud and handling of surplus soil
- Faster than conventional drilling.
- It is possible to avoided layers with ground water, stone baring layers etc.
- Directional drilling is applicable in the range of 60-300 horizontally and 2-40 m vertically.