When Judy Cardell was finishing graduate school at MIT, her goal was to work for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. She landed a job there, only to discover it wasn’t the right fit after all, ...

Improving the efficiency of heating and cooling systems - especially through thermal energy storage - offers one of the ...

Kraftblock, a Germany-based thermal energy storage specialist, has published a 30-page study with German consultancy DWR Eco on the benefits of thermal energy storage for power grids and renewable ...

Vantaa Energy, an urban energy company jointly owned by the cities of Vantaa and Helsinki, is planning the construction of the world’s largest seasonal heat storage system. At more than 1 million ...

An energy supplier in Finland has announced the upcoming construction of an underground seasonal thermal energy storage facility about the size of two Madison Square Gardens that could meet the ...

The increasing reliance on renewable energy sources like solar and wind power necessitates the development of robust and efficient energy storage solutions. Various energy storage technologies, ...

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 ...

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Researchers have developed a heat storage unit that takes up less space than a regular hot water tank. It charges when ...