The concept behind a thermal battery is overwhelmingly simple: Use electricity to heat up some cheap, sturdy material (like ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jaicky Kumar, co-founder and CEO of Voltanova – a deep-tech firm incubated by the Foundation for Science, Innovation and Development (FSID) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) – speaks to pv ...

Officials with Denmark-headquartered Aalborg CSP said the company has developed technology that could convert retired ...

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 ...

Last September, the Western U.S. was hit with a 10-day heat wave that broke temperature records across the region, including in California. Air conditioning surged and with it, a record demand in ...

Phase change materials (PCMs) represent a pivotal class of substances that store and release thermal energy through reversible transitions between solid and liquid states. Their ability to absorb or ...

PV-thermal energy with heat pumps, aquifer thermal storage in buildings Researchers in the Netherlands have simulated a residential energy system combining PV, solar thermal, and PV-thermal panels ...

The city of Oak Ridge and Shift Thermal will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 23 to unveil a new ...