Antora Energy

Next Tuesday, November 19 at 11:30 AM, Antora’s Director of Federal Affairs Sasha Stashwick 🇺🇦 will be speaking at a hybrid event hosted by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation about how new technologies can both boost U.S. economic competitiveness and accelerate industrial decarbonization.    Livestream the panel to hearSasha and other experts share their perspectives: https://bit.ly/3YCvqzX

The world’s biggest decarbonization challenge comes not from cars, planes, or power plants, but from heavy industries, writes Daniel McCarthy in Canary Media Inc. Under a business-as-usual scenario, industrial sectors like steel and chemical production are on pace to emit as much CO2 equivalent as the power, transportation, and building sectors combined by 2050. Historically, industry has been described as “hard-to-decarbonize,” but cleaner pathways are emerging and being deployed now, McCarthy writes. Read more: https://bit.ly/48DQJ8W

Last month at Sightline Climate (CTVC)'s #SightLive event at #NYCW, Antora CFO Rene Griemens discussed Antora’s capital stack and path towards exponential deployment. Read the recap from Sightline detailing how Antora’s $150M Series B came together: https://bit.ly/3C77zk8

We’re excited to share that Antora’s VP of Commercial Development Nicole Geneau has been named to Storm4’s Top 100 Women in GreenTech, which highlights the women who are driving forward the future of climate technology. Read more about Nicole and other trailblazers who are innovating to combat climate change: https://bit.ly/4hu9S13

Last week, Antora’s Director of Product Management & Analytics Jordan Leventhal spoke at Trellis Group's #VERGE24 on how thermal batteries open a pathway to cost-effectively decarbonize the chemicals sector, which accounts for 6% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. RMI breaks down how thermal batteries can electrify chemical plants and how smart policies can unlock significant emission reductions in the chemicals industry: https://bit.ly/3UtFrOy

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.