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Six investors led by Shell Ventures join in series B to accelerate the difficult decarbonization of heavy industry.
Almost all the emissions from this PepsiCo factory came from heating the oil to fry the chips. A German startup had a solution.
Recycling of raw materials from electronic waste is a fast growing business, especially for gold and other valuable materials. The fossil-fired processes can be electrified and waste heat can be used to improve energy efficiency.
Endeavour Energy and EnergyLab will explore partnerships with 10 leading clean energy start-ups to drive innovation and support Endeavour Energy’s goal of decarbonising the grid. Selected via an intensive pitch process through EnergyLab’s Scaleup Program, the 10 energy start-ups offer innovative new ideas in grid digitisation; advanced analytics; social licence and community engagement; commercial and industrial decarbonisation; distributed energy resource management; and on-demand satellite imaging.
In collaboration with energy company Eneco, and leveraging technology from German start-up Kraftblock, PepsiCo is electrifying the production of Lay’s and Cheetos crisps at its Broek of Langedijk site in the Netherlands.
Thermal energy storage solution firms Brenmiller and Kraftblock have agreed to deploy large-scale commercial projects for large European utilities, totalling 2GWh and 150MWh respectively.
The higher the receiver temperature, the more efficiently a solar thermal power plant will operate. Convective thermal losses also have an important effect on yield.
As Europe braces for a difficult winter, with energy prices still high and energy supplies at risk, the energy efficiency challenge feels more urgent than ever. One European company that has been working hard to provide a solution is German-based Kraftblock.
In a project where the old world of energy meets the new, AGL will investigate the technical and financial feasibility of using thermal batteries to provide the steam for a 200 MW turbine at South Australia’s Torrens Island Power Plant, which usually run on gas.
PepsiCo on Friday announced plans to phase out use of natural gas at a factory in the Netherlands and adopt a system based on renewable electricity to make its deep fried snacks in an industry first that Pepsi says could become a template.
The world’s shift to renewable energy needs a solution to one central challenge: how to store excess solar and wind power for later use. Meanwhile, energy-intensive industries have a challenge of their own: what to do with all of the excess heat they generate. Kraftblock CEO Martin Schichtel, a chemist by training, believes his German-based company has the answer – a thermal-based storage system.
From hydrogen to hydropower, and from offshore solar farms to heat storage, these incredibly innovative start-ups are coming up with remarkable ideas to power our future.
News of the The Green Box – the new science, technology and enterprise campus dedicated to the development of viable and affordable clean energy solutions – has been brought to a 319 million strong global radio audience by the BBC World Service.
Across Europe, a range of entrepreneurs are attracting funds aimed to improving how power is generated and deployed in industry and at home. Kraftblock, a German start-up with a novel thermal storage solution, is one of the most recent additions to the Koolen Industries portfolio.
This is the clean energy vision being developed by Kraftblock, a German startup which is using nanotechnology to develop a highly efficient thermal storage system. The company has just taken a €3m investment from Dutch clean energy company Koolen Industries which will help it commercialise the system.
Koolen Industries is at it again. In its quest to lead the energy transition, the Hengelo-based clean-energy conglomerate is pouring three million euros into German thermal energy storage specialist Kraftblock.
Dutch clean energy conglomerate Koolen Industries has invested €3 million in Kraftblock, a German firm that uses nanotechnology to develop new ways to store and transport energy as heat.
“It’s really a step forward in terms of becoming global,” says Martin Schichtel, CEO of Kraftblock, a cleantech company. Schichtel participated in the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt accelerator program RESPOND, which is operated by UnternehmerTUM. He was part of the first cohort that started in 2020 and was especially impressed by the focus on responsible leadership, impact, and sustainable business models.
As we took natural resources for granted, entrepreneurs like Martin started out to reuse as much of what we use as possible. With Kraftblock he and his team are transforming the way we use waste heat within our value chains.
