According to the labs, as much as 50% of electricity consumption in buildings in the United States goes toward meeting thermal loads. Thermal energy storage (TES) solutions, thus, show promise as a cost-effective energy storage alternative.
“A multidisciplinary consortium like Stor4Build can accelerate the discovery-to-deployment timeline so that thermal energy storage can be deployed on a massive scale to tackle climate change,” Ravi Prasher, Berkeley Lab’s former associate lab director who was instrumental in the development of this collaboration, said in a media statement.
TES refers to the energy that can be stored in a material as a heat source or a cold sink, rather than as electrical energy, and reserved for use at a different time. These solutions can increase load flexibility, promote the use of renewable energy sources, and allow heat pumps to function more…
Major US labs launch energy storage consortium
