Due to increased share of fluctuating renewable energy sources in future decarbonized, electricity-driven energy systems, participating in the electricity markets yields the potential for industry to reduce its energy costs and emissions. A key enabling technology is thermal energy storage combined...

Relying on phase change materials (PCM), latent heat storage (LHS) yields generally more compact solutions than sensible heat storage, making them ideal as thermal batteries in commercial and residential buildings. This study reviews the main active LHS technologies for buildings that have emerged...

The Zero Emission Building (ZEB) lab in Trondheim (Norway), owned by SINTEF and NTNU, provides a structure to develop and test innovative solutions in a living laboratory. An innovative latent heat storage (LHS) unit using biowax as phase change material (PCM) has been integrated in the central...