Comfort Cooling

On average, U.S. buildings spend 15% of their total electricity consumption on space cooling. Let’s consider a typical building’s electric load profile (right). As a building owner with ice energy storage, you can take all of the energy used for cooling and move it off-peak, significantly lowering cost.

Unfortunately, with the current state-of-the-art technology, you can face long payback periods due to high system costs. That

…is the challenge our innovation solves!

Market Trends

Lithium-ion batteries in cars, homes, and grid scale installations may sound familiar, but ice energy storage has a much longer track record, and within the cold thermal storage space, is clearly the solution of choice!

Compared to Lithium ion batteries, ice thermal energy storage provides:

Simplicity
>30 years lifetime
4x lower $
Inherent Safety

Regarding the applicability of ice energy storage:

In 2017, 9.6 % of U.S. electricity went into cooling buildings (EIA source). Mobilizing even 1/10th of that cooling load through ice energy storage represents a more than 4 GW of potential!
Active Energy’s fundamental innovation will open up the use of ice energy storage in some very important new markets. Please see our other Market sections for more information.

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