{"id":57246,"date":"2026-06-07T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/thermal-storage-double-value-electrification-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T16:38:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:38:47","slug":"thermal-storage-double-value-electrification-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/en\/thermal-storage-double-value-electrification-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Thermal storage can cut heating costs while batteries power electrical equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Energy Storage Europe argues that industrial thermal storage can deliver two services from one investment: it can replace part of fossil-fuel heat demand while shifting electricity consumption toward periods with renewable surplus or favourable prices.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation also identifies barriers including grid-connection delays, network charges, limited access to flexibility markets and financing. Those obstacles are most visible in large industrial systems, but the operating principle also matters in smaller installations.<\/p>\n<h2>Why heat can be the better storage destination<\/h2>\n<p>Heat does not always need to be produced at the moment it is used. A correctly sized fireclay or other thermal store can charge during a useful electricity window and release heat later. That leaves electrochemical battery capacity available for lighting, electronics, motors and other loads that must remain electrical.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"wt-article-shop-links\">\n<h2>Put the article into practice<\/h2>\n<p>Compare model-specific specifications, availability and delivery information without leaving WodaTherm\u2122.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/product-category\/bateriova-uloziste\/\">Explore battery storage<\/a> <a class=\"wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/product-category\/tepelna-akumulace\/\">Explore thermal storage<\/a><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<hr>\n<p class=\"wt-source-note\"><strong>Primary source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/energystorageeurope.eu\/publication\/position-paper-on-dual-value-electrification\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Energy Storage Europe<\/a> \u00b7 source language: English \u00b7 published: 2026-06-01. This is an original WodaTherm\u2122 briefing, not a copy of the source publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thermal storage can shift electricity use into favourable periods, supply later heat and preserve electrochemical battery capacity for loads that must remain electrical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":57712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2755],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-storage-news"],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57246"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57713,"href":"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57246\/revisions\/57713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wodatherm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}