New Thermal Energy Storage System Uses Ice, Not Heat, To Decarbonize Buildings
A new thermal energy storage system leverages icemaking, demand-shifting, renewables, and virtual power plants to decarbonize buildings.
A new thermal energy storage system leverages icemaking, demand-shifting, renewables, and virtual power plants to decarbonize buildings.
US-made thermal “ice battery” energy storage technology that could dramatically change the way people cool their homes in summer – potentially cutting household peak power consumption by up to 95% – is poised to take on the Australian market, through a distribution deal with local solar hot water company Apricus.
Leading US power company NRG has announced it will work with a leading provider of distributed ice battery storage, Ice Energy, to deploy Ice Bear storage systems on qualifying commercial and industrial buildings in Orange County.
Ice Energy has announced a new model of its thermal energy storage in ice, designed purely with the solar homeowner in mind.
Ice Energy has introduced the Ice Bear 20, a thermal residential energy storage solution which will be used by utilities, with a consumer product slated to come out in 2017 as well. (The California-based company has had a larger commercial product available in the marketplace, which has also been used primarily by utilities.) … [continued]
A company called Ice Energy, located in Glendale, CA, will be providing up to 25 MW of grid support to Southern California Edison in the form of water that is frozen at night when electricity is cheap. During a hot day, the ice is used for cooling in a rooftop … [continued]
About 24 municipal buildings in Southern California are about to help ease the strain on the grid created by the peak need for air conditioning on hot California afternoons. Over the next few weeks, a consortium of municipal utilities in California will begin retrofitting government offices and commercial properties with … [continued]