Insights
Practical guides on thermal energy storage, industrial decarbonization, and the technology behind IsoTES®.
November 6, 2026 · 3 min read
Steam from Stored Electric Heat: Herkkumaa
Finnish canned food maker Herkkumaa charges a 10MWh thermal store when power is cheap and replaces steam once made from light fuel oil. A food plant case.
Read articleOctober 30, 2026 · 3 min read
How to Cut Energy Use in Spray Drying
Spray drying uses 10–20 times more heat than an evaporator to remove the same water. How a spray dryer works, and how to save energy before and inside it.
Read articleOctober 23, 2026 · 4 min read
How Food Factories Can Save Energy
Over half of a food factory's energy is heat, mostly boiler steam. From insulation and condensate return to waste heat recovery, ways to cut it, easiest first.
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October 16, 2026 · 3 min read
Heating Homes with London Underground Waste Heat
A London council heats 550 homes and a school with warm air escaping from Tube tunnels, the world's first use of Underground waste heat for district heating.
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October 9, 2026 · 3 min read
Storing Surplus Steam in a Heat Battery: Yara
A Norwegian fertiliser plant stores surplus steam that used to be dumped in a heat battery, then draws on it when steam runs short. A waste heat storage case running since 2023.
Read articleOctober 2, 2026 · 2 min read
3 Ways to Store Factory Waste Heat
Waste heat is lost when it comes out at the wrong time. Three ways to store it and use it later: hot water tanks, steam accumulators and heat batteries.
Read articleSeptember 25, 2026 · 5 min read
How Factories Use Waste Heat: 6 Common Methods
Industrial waste heat goes into preheating, steam, district heating, heat pumps, power and cooling. What each of the six common methods produces and which waste heat it suits.
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September 18, 2026 · 3 min read
What Is CBAM? What Changed at Full Implementation
CBAM entered its definitive regime on 1 January 2026. What is already binding, when certificates go on sale, and what exporters actually have to do.
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September 11, 2026 · 3 min read
Heating a City with Smelter Waste Heat: TRIMET
An aluminium smelter's waste heat is captured as 130°C water and fed into a district heating network — inside the 31,000MWh project in Essen, Germany.
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September 4, 2026 · 3 min read
Making Ice Makes Heat: Waste Heat Recovery at Ice Rinks
An ice rink throws off as much heat as it removes. Here is what a Finnish study calculated it could recover, and what it takes to actually use that heat.
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August 28, 2026 · 4 min read
Brewing with Solar and a Heat Battery: Heineken
Heineken's Portugal brewery will make process steam from solar power and a heat battery instead of gas — 100MWh, among the beverage industry's largest.
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August 21, 2026 · 3 min read
What Is a Heat Battery? 3 Ways to Store Heat
A heat battery stores heat, not electricity. How sensible, latent, and thermochemical storage each work — and which difference matters on a plant floor.
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July 27, 2026 · 3 min read
What Is Industrial Waste Heat? Sources and Scale
Industrial waste heat is 20–50% of the energy factories consume. Here is how much is lost, why it goes unrecovered, and how heat storage changes that.
Read articleJune 22, 2026 · 1 min read
Thermal Storage vs. Batteries for Industrial Heat
Lithium batteries store electricity; thermal energy storage stores heat. Here is how the two compare when what a plant needs is heat.
Read articleJune 20, 2026 · 2 min read
What Is Thermal Energy Storage? A Practical Industry Guide
Thermal energy storage (TES) lets factories and grids store heat now and use it later. Here is how it works, why it matters for decarbonization, and where it fits.
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