Maria Gallucci of Canary Media reports on a new energy storage company.
- Calectra, an Oakland-based startup, has raised $2 million to develop a thermal energy storage system using electrically conductive bricks to provide high-temperature heat for industrial processes, aiming to decarbonize a sector that accounts for 25% of global energy consumption.
- The company’s technology converts electricity into heat up to 1,600 degrees Celsius, stores it in bricks, and delivers it to manufacturers, potentially offering a cleaner alternative to fossil fuels for high-heat industrial processes.
- Calectra’s approach differs from competitors by making the bricks themselves electrically conductive, which they claim is more energy-efficient than using heat exchangers to transfer heat to and from storage materials.
“Calectra is only just starting to put this concept to the test. With the pre-seed and grant funding in hand, Meskanen and Weger are working to grow their team by hiring a materials scientist and hardware engineers to help nail down the brick-material combinations and build a larger prototype of the system, in preparation for raising a round of seed funding.”
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