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With the rapid rise in electric vehicles, there is a growing glut of aluminium engine blocks – and few new users for the low-grade alloy. Now British startup Caldera has a solution – they have developed a novel way of storing green electricity as heat, using giant blocks made of recycled aluminium and volcanic rock. […]

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Beyond Batteries – Caldera’s Innovative Answer to Energy Storage (podcast)

In today’s episode of the Climate Confident podcast, I had the pleasure of sitting down with James Macnaghten, the CEO of Caldera, to dive deep into the game-changing world of energy storage. What’s special about Caldera, you ask? They’re not just storing energy – they’re reimagining it! We delved into Caldera’s innovative thermal battery technology,

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Decarbonizing industrial heat with James MacNaghten (podcast)

Caldera are on the latest Modo Energy podcast. Accounting for 20 percent of global energy consumption, industrial heat is a massive area in need of decarbonization. Covering everything from pasteurisation to steel manufacturing, there are countless businesses that will need to step away from the current method of burning natural gas, in order to reach

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Molten aluminium and gravel could prove helpful on how to store and decarbonise heat (podcast)

Caldera are on the latest Sky News Climatecast podcast. Two components – available cheap renewable energy and a rechargeable heat battery – are needed to ease the climate impact of heat in the UK. And now, a growing company based in Hampshire believes it has the answer to both. Listen at Sky News Climatecast

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Shadow minister gets first-hand look at Caldera heat ‘batteries’

Caldera have been featured again in Build in Digital. Labour’s shadow minister for energy security paid a visit to a Hampshire start-up that aims to change the way in which industry generates and stores heat. Dr Alan Whitehead MP visited industrial heat specialists Caldera last week to see for himself how the company is looking

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Caldera Partners with Manufacturing Technology Centre to Design Heat Cell Gigafactory

Caldera have once again been featured in Process Industry Match. Heat storage specialist Caldera has engaged the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) to design a heat cell gigafactory to mass manufacture its unique low carbon heat storage system at scale. The company plans to commence commercial production in 2025 and scale up rapidly thereafter, with thousands

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