The Kraftblock team at the site of one of their firm's thermal batteries, installed at a ceramics plant. The battery is the white container connected to the building via the chrome pipes. About half ...

The systems, which can store clean energy as heat, were chosen by readers as the 11th Breakthrough Technology of 2024. We need heat to make everything from steel bars to ketchup packets. Today, a ...

From the glass screen and metal components in your mobile phone to the plastic shampoo bottle you reach for in your morning ...

Rondo Energy hopes hot bricks could help clean up manufacturing. Rondo Energy just turned on what it says is the world’s largest thermal battery, an energy storage system that can take in electricity ...

Australian startup MGA Thermal has unveiled a 5 MWh demonstration plant showcasing its patented electro-thermal energy storage (ETES) system. The ETES transforms renewable energy into clean steam and ...

For many industries, lithium batteries just don’t cut it — they’re getting increasingly expensive, require too much space, and sometimes are just overkill for many industrial use cases. Thermal ...

A Finnish-Swedish consortium has designed a hybrid system that uses photovoltaics and solar thermal energy separately to provide steam to industrial facilities. The PV unit is coupled to a sand-based ...