29 DEC 2023 Commercially available products and champions of PCMs and TCMs The Compact Thermal Energy Storage group within the IEA Solar Heating and Cooling programme investigates new materials for storing heat and develops standard... read more
28 JAN 2023 Stability testing is needed to investigate the market readiness of compact thermal energy storage materials Stability is a key issue when evaluating new phase-change materials (PCMs) or thermochemical materials (TCMs) for thermal energy storage. A loss of stability... read more
23 MAY 2022 Testing improved thermochemical heat storage in a real environment Source: AEE INTEC (Photo taken from the recording of the session) The session Emerging Heat and Cold Storages during the ISEC conference in April... read more
20 JUL 2021 Develop stable and reliable compact thermal energy storages The IEA Solar Heating and Cooling Programme has redoubled its efforts to develop and test compact thermal energy storage (CTES), saying the technology... read more
16 DEC 2020 IEA SHC & IEA ECES Collaboration Makes Advances in Thermal Energy Storage Thermal energy storage is key for integrating renewable heat sources into an energy system --from domestic applications to district heating and from... read more
16 DEC 2020 Material and Component Development for Thermal Energy Storage The IEA SHC Programme concluded its joint project with the IEA Energy Conservation through Energy Storage (ECES) Programme on Material and Component... read more
20 SEP 2020 Thermal storage for flexible sector integration In his keynote speech at Eurosun 2020, Dr Andreas Hauer talked about the different roles that heat storage could play as part of a whole systems approach... read more
03 JUN 2020 Round robins improve TCM testing Thermochemical storage materials (TCMs) offer much higher storage capacities by mass or volume than sensible or latent heat storage and can store heat... read more
24 APR 2020 Compact heat battery with virtually no heat loss A compact thermochemical seasonal storage system put up at a demonstration site in Warsaw, Poland, is working as expected. The prototype, developed and... read more
08 JAN 2020 Compact thermal energy storage: research in cycles Research into compact thermal energy storage is made difficult by the fact that the performance of storage materials depends significantly on their intended... read more
28 DEC 2019 In search of cost-effective, advanced PCMs Salt hydrates are the most interesting phase change material in the low-temperature range of up to 150 °C. Their volume-related enthalpy at melting is... read more
30 OCT 2019 IEA SHC Solar Academy: Material and Component Development for Thermal Energy Storage - November 27, 2019 The International Solar Energy Society is hosting the next webinar in the IEA SHC Solar Academy's 2019 webinar series on Task 58 - Material and Component... read more
30 OCT 2019 Encouraging faster materials development for compact storage Research and industry experts in thermochemical storage materials are invited to participate in a workshop that will take place on 11 and 12 November in... read more
23 OCT 2018 Online database on advanced PCMs Compared to water, phase change materials (PCMs) offer more capacity to store heat in tanks. As a consequence, researchers in all corners of the world... read more
10 OCT 2018 Excellent material for sorption-based solar energy storage Microporous hydrophilic substances such as zeolites are recognised as promising materials for very efficient energy storage. Solar thermal systems are... read more
18 JUL 2017 We will need new and innovate designs for heat and mass exchangers Thermochemical materials (TCMs) used in storage tanks show higher heat capacities than water and smaller losses over time. They are crucial to an increase... read more