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Today in Canary Media Inc., recent Antora Senior Fellow Jeffrey Rissman details five industrial decarbonization policies that will "turbocharge the U.S. manufacturing renaissance already underway, creating many thousands of high-quality jobs, securing domestic supply chains, and cutting the climate pollution that is warming the planet." 85% of the fossil fuels burned by industry are used to produce heat, and Jeff highlights policies like a clean heat production tax credit that would accelerate manufacturers' shift to clean energy. Read how the U.S. can apply smart policies to make American industry both cleaner and more competitive: https://lnkd.in/e7kBsbXA

It was a fantastic privilege to present at the 2024 California Energy Commission EPIC Symposium. We discussed how thermal storage can cut carbon pollution from California industrial processes by 84 million tons while better utilizing the electric grid, reducing curtailment, and lowering the cost of getting to 100% clean energy. How? Antora Energy’s thermal storage technology uses low market value and otherwise-curtailed renewable energy to provide 24/7 industrial heat, powering California's factories with the state's abundant wind and solar generation. What’s needed? Electricity market structures that lower the cost of decarbonization for all ratepayers, including by allowing for highly flexible assets like thermal storage to use only off-peak electricity during periods of high renewable energy production.

As detailed by Antora co-founder and COO Justin Briggs in pv magazine Global, thermal batteries don’t just open a path to rapid industrial decarbonization—they also accelerate our path to a zero-carbon grid. Read more on how thermal batteries provide valuable use for otherwise low-value power, enabling an accelerated buildout of renewables while eliminating gigatons of industrial emissions: https://bit.ly/4hlbXMy

Next week at Decarb Connect Canada, Antora’s VP of Commercial Development Nicole Geneau will join a panel of clean energy experts to discuss scaling clean power across the Canadian industrial sector.   Catch Nicole on Thursday, November 7th at 9:45 AM to hear how thermal batteries can decarbonize Canadian industry while accelerating Canada’s path to a zero-carbon grid: https://bit.ly/48uS5T2

This week at Trellis Group's #VERGE24, catch the Antora team, starting today: 🔋8:30am–1:00pm: Antora’s VP of Business Development Ty Jagerson will detail the pathway for scaling climate tech innovations at the Climate Tech Commercialization Forum, hosted in partnership with Activate. And on Wednesday: 🧪3:15–4:15pm: Antora’s Director of Product Management Jordan Leventhal will discuss how thermal batteries can decarbonize the chemicals sector by converting cheap renewable electricity into always-on industrial process heat at the Carbon-Conscious Chemistry breakout session.

At Trellis Group's #VERGE24 on Tuesday, October 29th, Antora’s VP of Business Development Ty Jagerson will speak at the Climate Tech Commercialization Forum, hosted in partnership with Activate. Catch Ty discuss the friction points and pathways forward in scaling climate tech innovations from 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM in room 212A-C: https://bit.ly/48oEb4Y

Next Wednesday, October 30 at 3:15pm, Antora’s Director of Product Management, Jordan Leventhal, will be speaking at Trellis Group's #VERGE24. Globally, the chemicals industry releases about 3.3 gigatons of greenhouse gas emissions each year. Jordan will dive into how thermal batteries can decarbonize the chemicals sector by converting cheap renewable electricity into always-on industrial process heat. Listen to Jordan and other experts share their perspectives during the breakout session, Carbon-Conscious Chemistry: Innovation in the Chemicals Sector: https://bit.ly/40jzPKp

Tomorrow, Antora’s Director of Federal Affairs, Sasha Stashwick 🇺🇦, will be speaking at the New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium (NY-BEST)'s #EnergyStorage Conference in Binghamton. Join us for the Long Duration Storage Technologies panel to hear from Sasha and other industry experts on advancements in thermal storage technologies and real-world applications. Sasha will detail how thermal batteries enable industrial electrification while increasing the amount of variable renewables that can be deployed on the grid. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eSqx5sy4

Last year, global investment in renewable power surpassed $700B. Yet in the U.S. alone, close to 2,500GW of renewable electricity was waiting to be connected to the grid, as outlined by the Financial Times.  Thermal batteries can accelerate the decarbonization of industry and the grid while mitigating the impacts of long interconnection queues. By enabling new wind and solar projects to provide a portion of their generation to industrial facilities behind-the-meter, thermal batteries enable developers to build more clean energy at already-approved interconnections. Read more about the state of renewable energy growth in the Financial Times: https://lnkd.in/eaF-gxnA And read how thermal batteries help accelerate deployment of renewables on the grid: https://lnkd.in/g6w9jBq6

At the Energy Storage Canada Conference last week, Antora’s VP of Commercial Development Nicole Geneau detailed how thermal batteries can decarbonize Canadian industry while balancing the grid, enabling full utilization of existing clean electricity resources and lowering costs for all grid-connected customers.