(CercleFinance.com) – Enertime announces the signing of a contract with the company Stolect in order to equip itself with two trains of 1 MW turbomachines intended for daily storage of electricity by high temperature heat storage, for installation on an SNCF site in Rennes.
This project, on which Enertime and Stolect have been working for two years, is the first industrial application of electricity storage technology by thermal conversion developed by Stolect.
‘The technology developed by the Stolect company convinced us from the first discussions two years ago,’ explains Gilles David, general manager of Enertime.
He adds that this so-called ‘LDES’ (Long Duration Electricity Storage) technology ‘makes it possible to massively store electricity over tens of hours at reduced cost by simply increasing the heat storage capacity’ and mentions ‘a key technology for decarbonize energy mixes’.