'World’s Largest' Industrial Heat Battery Is Online and Solar-Powered

'World’s largest' industrial heat battery is online and solar-powered

Rondo Energy has begun commercial operations of what it says is the world’s largest industrial heat battery – a 100 MWh system now operating at a Holmes Western Oil facility in California. Powered entirely by an onsite solar array, the system supplies constant high-pressure steam and heat to the plant, demonstrating how renewable energy can directly power heavy industry. more…

The World’s Largest Battery Made of Bricks Turns on in California

Rondo Energy’s heat battery is helping power enhanced oil recovery.

Rondo Energy’s 100 MWh heat battery powered by 20 MW of onsite solar

Heat batteries for storing industrial heat can also be powered by low-cost grid electricity generated at sunny and windy hours, the company said.Rondo Energy has announced that a 100 MWh heat battery it installed in California, powered solely by 20 MW of onsite, off-grid solar, has entered daily automatic operation. The heat battery provides continuous high-pressure heat and steam to a Holmes Western oil facility, and is the first large-scale co…

‘World’s largest’ industrial heat battery is online and solar-powered

Rondo Energy has begun commercial operations of what it says is the world's largest industrial heat battery – a 100 MWh system now operating at a Holmes Western Oil facility in California. Powered entirely by an onsite solar array, the system supplies constant high-pressure steam and heat to the plant, demonstrating how renewable energy can directly power heavy industry. more . . .

The world’s largest battery made of bricks turns on in California

By Michelle Ma, Bloomberg A Bay Area startup has turned on the world’s largest industrial heat battery. Rondo Energy is helping power Holmes Western Oil Corp.’s enhanced oil recovery system. Holmes replaced one of its natural gas-fired boilers at a project in Kern County, California, with a 20-megawatt solar array paired with Rondo’s 100-megawatt-hour battery, which heats up clay bricks with electricity to generate steam that’s then used to forc…