This outlook from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) highlights key attributes of Thermal energy storage (TES) technologies and identifies priorities for ongoing research and development. More information is available here.

IRENA’s Innovation Outlook series analyses rapidly emerging renewable energy technologies (RETs) and examines ways to enhance their competitiveness. Each outlook identifies technology-, industry- and policy-related challenges and assesses the potential breakthroughs needed to accelerate the uptake.

This report has been completed with the support of Anabel Palacios Trujillo, Omar Saeed, Helena Navarro, Yulong Ding and Yi-Chung Chen from Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage and the Carbon Trust.

IRENA’s innovation outlook report on TES is available for downloading here.