Task 58 Material & Components for Thermal Energy Storage This joint SHC Task 58 / ECES Annex 33 deals with advanced materials for latent and chemical thermal energy storage, Phase Change (PCM) and Thermo Chemical (TCM) materials.
Task 45 Large Scale Solar Heating and Cooling Systems The main objective of this task is to assist in the development of a strong and sustainable market of large solar heating and cooling systems by focusing on cost effectiveness, high performance and reliability of systems.
Task 42 Compact Thermal Energy Storage The overall objective of this task is to develop advanced materials and systems for the compact storage of thermal energy.
Task 32 Advanced Storage Concepts in Low Energy Buildings The main goal of this Task is to investigate new or advanced solutions for storing heat in systems providing heating or cooling for low energy buildings.
Task 7 Central Solar Heating Plants with Seasonal Storage Through the use of central solar heating plants with large, seasonal storage systems, solar energy can be collected during the summer and stored until needed in the heating season when solar radiation is often insufficient.
16 DEC 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 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
27 OCT Improved design for giga-size pit heat storage Denmark’s cost-effective, tried-and-true seasonal pit heat storage concept needs to be modified if it is to be implemented across Europe, since district... read more
20 SEP 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
11 JUN SWC/SHC 2019 Proceedings now available We are pleased to announce that the proceedings of the SWC/SHC 2019 are now available online. read more
03 JUN 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 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 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