EASE Task Force Behind-the-Meter has prepared an overview of Business Case and Taxonomy of Behind-the-Meter Battery Energy Storage Systems in Europe.
October 2023 /
Empowering Energy Intensive Industries: Unleashing Energy Storage Innovations
On 24 October 2023 International Federeration of Industrial Energy Consumers (IFIEC) and the European Association for Storage of Energy (EASE) gathered participants for a webinar "Empowering Energy Intensive Industries: Unleashing Energy Storage Innovations".
Webinar Speakers:
Carbon-Clean Technologies GmbH
Carbonclean provides energy-intensive industries with on-demand, renewable process heat from our thermal storage. The system stores energy as high-temperature heat at 1,200 °C and is charged with renewable energy from locally sited renewables or via the grid. The system is discharged to provide a continuous stream of high-temperature process heat (hot air or steam) to industrial processes. Our modular energy storage achieves capacities of 100 MWh to 5 GWh and achieves energy efficiencies of 95 %. Contact: Robert Pfab, robert.pfab@carbonclean.de
UNDA Engineering
Unda Enginering Inc. was founded in 2016 with the aim of developing solutions for a sustainable industry. We developed a thermal battery under the Calor-e brand. The system can be used on the grid as a “demand shifting product” or off the grid with direct coupling with renewables such as solar and wind. The main highlights of the system are its modularity, fast response capabilities for charge and discharge, full recyclability and low environmental footprint and its compatibility with conventional heat transfer fluids. The system is designed as 1 MWe modular units that can be arranged for different user profiles with a versatile range of charge up to 0.5 MWe/h and discharge up to 1 MWe/h. Contact: Emin Selahattin Umdu, esu@undaengineering.com
Kyoto Group
Heat accounts for two thirds of industrial energy consumption. Traditionally, nearly all of it is based on fossil fuels. Kyoto Group's Heatcube, a thermal energy storage (TES) solution, provides a sustainable and cost-effective alternative by capturing and storing abundant but variable energy from sources such as solar and wind. Founded in 2016, Kyoto Group is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, and has subsidiaries in Spain and Denmark. Contact: Camilla Nilsson, camilla@kyotogroup.no
This position paper, prepared by the Energy Storage Europe Association, assesses the system value of long-duration energy storage, identifies barriers to deployment, and proposes recommendations to better align European energy, industrial, and financing frameworks with the long-term flexibility needs of a fully decarbonised power system.
In this position paper, the Energy Storage Europe Association calls for a shift from today’s “first-come, first-served” queue system to a more efficient, strategic, and transparent framework that recognises the unique value of energy storage for reducing congestion, enhancing flexibility, and making better use of existing grid infrastructure.
Energy Storage Europe Association has published its Position Paper on Improving Permitting Procedures, highlighting the urgent need to streamline, harmonise, and modernise permitting frameworks for energy storage across the EU. Europe needs a fast, fair, and future-proof permitting framework to unlock the estimated 200 GW of energy storage required by 2030.
Energy Storage Europe Association responds to the European Commission’s Public Consultations on the Electrification Action Plan and the Heating and Cooling Strategy, highlighting the need for stronger recognition of storage as a central enabler of electrification and heating decarbonisation. This requires clearer policies to integrate storage into planning and investment pathways, along with measures to remove persistent barriers such as high upfront costs, slow permitting, unfavourable taxation, and weak market signals. Storage should be treated as a default element of a cost-effective, system-friendly transition and reflected accordingly in planning frameworks, financing tools, and flexibility market design.
