KTH and Kyoto Group, a Norwegian leading thermal battery company, have maintained an ongoing research collaboration since 2022, with the latest milestone of the industrial partner being the inauguration of a Heatcube, a thermal energy storage system, in Hungary earlier this autumn.
Kyoto’s Heatcube storage system provides a green and cost-effective solution, capturing and preserving renewable energy and converting it into heat to generate steam, using a modular technology that exploits the use of molten salts. The technique leads to replacing natural gas and cutting up tons of CO₂ emissions, serving as a foundation for empowering industries with renewable thermal energy, especially when considering that more than half of the energy consumed by industries is in the form of heat.
The newly built installation in Hungary acknowledge deployment of one of Europe’s major industrial thermal energy storage systems, and provides a platform for joint forces, as the partners have signed a further three-year strategic agreement. The new agreement includes an establishment of a lab infrastructure with molten salts at KTH Energy Department in Stockholm.
The official inauguration of the new lab is planned for 2026.