Thermal batteries can efficiently store energy as heat. But building them requires a carefully designed system with materials ...

Tokyo-based heavy industry manufacturer IHI Corporation has created a thermal utilization system that can convert surplus direct current power at solar plants into carbon-free steam. A test project ...

Researchers in Spain have designed a pumped thermal energy storage system that uses supercritical carbon dioxide as a heat pump and a heat engine. The proposed system is claimed to achieve an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You don’t need a battery to store energy. A class of technologies known as thermal storage can do the job too, and it even has ...

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE), known for its wind turbines used in both large onshore and offshore projects, in June began operation of an electric thermal energy storage (ETES) system in ...

The Yukon Conservation Society (YCS) is starting a pilot project aimed at shifting demands on the Yukon Energy grid away from the busiest times of the day. The society plans to have electric thermal ...

SACO — Adam Cote, of Springvale, is now the chief executive officer of Thermal Energy Storage of Maine, LLC (TESM), the Saco-based company that sells electric thermal storage (ETS) units to heat homes ...

Active Power recently revealed the principles by which it has achieved extended battery-free power backup in its CleanSource XR product. The company combines two energy storage mechanisms — thermal ...