Thermal energy storage (TES) systems store energy as heat and are a type of long-duration energy storage (LDES), meaning many of the technologies can store energy for over 10 hours.

In ‘Why Long Duration Energy Storage is the Solution to Industrial Decarbonisation’ MGA Thermal covered the impact of industrial emissions – which contribute to over 25% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, generating over 12.5 billion tons of CO2 emissions in 2021 (LDES Council 2023).

Industrial emissions currently contribute to over 25% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, generating over 12.5 billion tons of CO2 emissions in 2021 (LDES Council 2023)!

Installed rooftop solar will soon generate more power than Australia’s remaining coal plants, that’s over 20GW of combined grid-connected capacity! There’s clearly a lot of rooftop solar, but how does it affect the whole grid system?

Our electricity network was historically created for baseload power through thermal fossil fuel power plants and therefore works best with the conditions provided by those generators.

This is the first article in our informative series on the energy market. We’ll start with some foundations – a basic explanation of the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) and how it functions.

The MGA technology allows for clean energy storage and the material itself will not negatively affect intergenerational quality of life.