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Underground Thermal Energy Storage (UTES) has emerged in both specific applications and within energy policy literature as a promising technology for meeting thermal loads with locally collected and stored solar energy, as well as several other potential applications, such as time-shifting of grid-based wind and solar power to better align variable generation with loads. In Europe, UTES systems have...