Three Department of Energy national laboratories this month launched a consortium to spur the development of thermal energy storage, or TES, for buildings.
The consortium, dubbed Stor4Build, will be led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, NREL said Nov. 15.
The consortium plans to work with stakeholders, including industry, utilities and nonprofit groups, to speed the development and market adoption of TES technologies, which store energy in a material such as water or salt hydrates, instead of as electrical energy, according to NREL.
“These three national labs have complementary competencies in materials science, device development, demonstrations, and market transformation that will enable overall success,” Ravi Prasher, Berkeley Lab’s…