How does Rondo heat bricks?

Rondo offers an alternative approach: stacks of bricks, heated by electricity generated from the wind and sun. Inside Rondo’s heat batteries, cheap renewable electricity heats iron wires similar to those in a toaster oven, which warms hundreds of tons of bricks to temperatures of up to 1,500 °C.

How does Rondo energy work?

Rondo Energy heats bricks with clean energy to over 1,000 degrees Celsius. That heat can then be used in factories that make products like cement, food, and plastic.

How efficient is Rondo's 'brick toaster' heat storage system?

Rondo's "brick toaster" heat storage system is 98% efficient, and stores cheap renewable energy for industrial use at 20% the cost of an electrochemical battery. Read more via New Atlas here. Conner Gordon Previous Previous Product launch: the Rondo Heat Battery (RHB), providing the world’s lowest-cost, zero-carbon industrial heat Next Next

What is Rondo energy doing to decarbonize the world's dirtiest sectors?

Rondo is using this simple, cheap material to decarbonize one of the world’s dirtiest sectors. Rondo Energy is supplying cheap, zero-emissions heat to factories to replace fossil-fuel-powered boilers, furnaces, and kilns.

Could Rondo power 200 homes a year?

Rondo has a 2-megawatt-hour battery operating commercially at an ethanol plant in California. Its scale-up plans are ambitious: In partnership with Siam Cement Group, the company is already producing enough heat-resistant brick to store 2.4 gigawatt-hours of energy a year, which could power more than 200 American homes.

What is a rondo heat battery?

The type of brick within the heat battery has been used in steel mills for decades. And the simplicity of the key components of Rondo’s battery means the technology can scale quickly, giving industries such as steel and cement manufacturers a cleaner way to run their factories.