Antora: Thinking Inside the Box for the Future of Energy Storage
Seeking long-term, scalable alternatives has long been at the forefront for firms, including Antora Energy. The California-based startup aims to solve this problem by employing thermal battery techniques to harness and store energy for
Bill Gates'' VC investment firm leads US$50m
Bill Gates founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures and is its chairman. Image: UK Department for International Development. Thermal storage startup Antora Energy has raised US$50 million from a group of investment firms including Bill Gates'' Breakthrough Energy Ventures to accelerate the development of its heat-based carbon block energy storage system
Antora – Solutions
We source the lowest-cost renewable energy for each project, backed by deep expertise in power markets and partnerships with renewable energy operators and electric utilities. 3 Project Financing. With sophisticated capital markets capabilities, Antora secures competitive project financing from top-tier infrastructure investors. 4 Installation
Antora Energy ($55M to develop a low-cost heat
Antora Energy, an American cleantech company founded in 2017, develops a low-cost thermal storage solution for grid-scale energy storage of renewable resources based on an inexpensive thermal storage medium
Andrew Ponec: Innovating Thermal Energy Storage for a
Contents1 Snapshot2 Early Life and Education3 Career4 Sustainability Highlights and Focus Snapshot Andrew Ponec is a pioneering entrepreneur in renewable energy, dedicated to decarbonizing industrial sectors through innovative energy storage solutions. As co-founder and CEO of Antora Energy, he leads efforts to provide zero-carbon industrial heat and
A super-battery aimed at decarbonizing industry
In it, I mentioned another thermal storage company whose technology caught my eye: Antora Energy. Like Rondo, Antora is part of the broad "box of rocks" category, but its tech can do some things that, for the time being, no other thermal battery can do.
Alumnus'' thermal battery helps industry eliminate fossil fuels
Antora Energy is addressing the intermittent nature of wind and solar with a low-cost, highly efficient thermal battery that stores electricity as heat to allow manufacturers and other energy-hungry businesses to eliminate their use of fossil fuels.
Antora Energy Raises $50M from Lowercarbon and Bill Gates
Activate Fellows and Antora Energy co-founders Andrew Ponec, Justin Briggs, and David Bierman have raised $50M to scale thermal energy storage to provide zero-carbon heat and power to decarbonize industry
Antora Energy recently demonstrated the world''s most
Antora Energy''s technology stores electricity as heat in extremely inexpensive raw materials and uses a novel thermophotovoltaic heat engine to convert that heat back to electricity when consumers need it, hours, days, or weeks later.
ARPA-E Disruptors: Antora Energy
Antora''s thermal battery stores energy in carbon blocks to heat and power industry without emissions. Innovation Antora Energy developed a revolutionary way to decarbonize heavy industry using thermal batteries that are 3x more energy dense than lithium-ion batteries. Antora''s battery stores energy in a stack of commercially available carbon blocks
A super-battery aimed at decarbonizing industry
In this episode, Antora Energy CEO Andrew Ponec talks up his company''s game-changing approach to thermal energy storage. (PDF transcript) And this is a really important point about temperatures for thermal energy storage that often gets missed when you have a process that needs to have heat input to it at a certain temperature. Like, let
Antora Energy | arpa-e.energy.gov
Antora Energy is unlocking zero-emissions industrial heat and power, cheaper than fossil fuels. Antora''s thermal battery uses renewable electricity to heat blocks of solid carbon—a low-cost, earth-abundant, and safe storage medium that''s
Antora Energy recently demonstrated the world''s most
Antora Energy''s technology stores electricity as heat in extremely inexpensive raw materials and uses a novel thermophotovoltaic heat engine to convert that heat back to electricity when consumers need it, hours,
DOE provides $63.5M for ''transformative'' energy solutions,
Antora Energy, based in Sunnyvale, California, will use its award of $14.5 million to scale production of its thermal battery technology, "which turns low-cost renewable energy into reliable, on
Antora Energy demonstrates world''s most efficient solid state
Antora Energy, a startup developing an energy storage system to integrate large amounts of renewables with the electric grid, was one of four companies selected for funding in the first year of a new collaboration between Shell and the U.S. Department of Energy''s National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Antora Energy Raises $50M from Lowercarbon and Bill
Activate Fellows and Antora Energy co-founders Andrew Ponec, Justin Briggs, and David Bierman have raised $50M to scale thermal energy storage to provide zero-carbon heat and power to decarbonize industry
This Company Wants To Swap Oil, Gas Heating With
A ntora Energy, a Bill Gates-backed startup with a bold pitch to use blocks of solid graphite to make heat-storing batteries, announced today that it will be opening its first factory in San
2022年2月に資金調達を実施した熱電池スタートアップ：Antora EnergyとRondo Energy
2022年2月、Antora Energy（以下「Antora社」）、Rondo Energy（以下「Rondo社」）というアメリカのスタートアップが資金調達を実施しました。両社は、どちらも産業用熱電池を開発しており、Breakthrough Energy Ventures（以下「BEV」）がリードするシリーズAラウンドで資金調達に成功した、という共通点を
Energy Storage | TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy
Antora Energy recently demonstrated the world''s most efficient solid state heat engine. On a mission to commercialize ultra-low-cost energy storage to support the widespread deployment of wind and solar power. March 18, 2020. Announcements; Innovation Transfer; Energy Storage;
Antora Energy | arpa-e.energy.gov
Antora Energy is unlocking zero-emissions industrial heat and power, cheaper than fossil fuels. Antora''s thermal battery uses renewable electricity to heat blocks of solid carbon—a low-cost, earth-abundant, and safe storage medium that''s used extensively across industries—to glowing-hot temperatures.
Antora Energy Raises $50M from Lowercarbon and Bill Gates
Antora''s three co-founders came together as Activate Fellows. Today, they are among the country''s top energy storage innovators. Images of solar farms and massive turbines evoke hope for the clean energy transition, but they obscure the real work involved in capturing, storing, and using that energy to power the industries most reliant on fossil fuels today.
Alumnus'' thermal battery helps industry eliminate
Antora Energy is addressing the intermittent nature of wind and solar with a low-cost, highly efficient thermal battery that stores electricity as heat to allow manufacturers and other energy-hungry businesses to eliminate their
No Solar Energy? No Problem! Gigantic Undersea Cable Will
For grid storage and other industrial-scale users of wind or solar energy, such as the AAPowerLink project, the Energy Department has its eye on even longer durations lasting days, weeks, months
Antora Energy demonstrates world''s most efficient solid state heat
Antora Energy, a startup developing an energy storage system to integrate large amounts of renewables with the electric grid, was one of four companies selected for funding
A super-battery aimed at decarbonizing industry
In it, I mentioned another thermal storage company whose technology caught my eye: Antora Energy. Like Rondo, Antora is part of the broad "box of rocks" category, but its tech can do some things that, for the
This Company Wants To Swap Oil, Gas Heating With Batteries
A ntora Energy, a Bill Gates-backed startup with a bold pitch to use blocks of solid graphite to make heat-storing batteries, announced today that it will be opening its first factory in San
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What is Antora thermal battery?
Antora's thermal battery turns cheap, clean energy into the standard that powers global industry. Charges with surplus clean electricity to deliver cost-effective, zero-emission energy at a predictable price. Multi-day storage delivers always-on heat and power for industrial operations where downtime is not an option.
Does Antora energy have a ready-to-scale thermal battery?
SUNNYVALE, Calif-- ( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Antora Energy, a leader in zero-carbon heat and power for the industrial sector, has launched its proven, ready-to-scale thermal battery.
How does Antora energy work?
Antora Energy's technology stores electricity as heat in extremely inexpensive raw materials and uses a novel thermophotovoltaic heat engine to convert that heat back to electricity when consumers need it, hours, days, or weeks later.
Could Antora energy make a big move to decarbonize industrial heat?
Antora Energy is building its first factory to produce thermal batteries. It could be a big move for decarbonizing industrial heat.
Will Antora start producing thermal batteries next year?
Justin Briggs, Antora’s co-founder and COO, says the new factory will begin producing thermal batteries next year, though Briggs was tightlipped on naming customers. (The company has technology that will allow its batteries to output both heat and electricity, but the current factory will produce batteries that output only heat at first.)
What can Antora do for your business?
They Could Also Help Spell the End of Fossil Fuels. LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT ANTORA CAN DO FOR YOUR BUSINESS. Electrify industrial operations, predictably and profitably. Antora’s American-made thermal batteries convert renewable energy into reliable heat & power.