The Rondo Heat Battery
Rondo’s Investors Include Leading Global Companies
Meet the Team
Benefits
Rondo will eliminate 15% of global CO2 emissions in 15 years. Here’s how.
A Rondo Heat Battery is:
Lowest-cost energy storage
No “Green Premium”
Reduce energy price volatility risk
Profitable
24/7 Zero-carbon heat
Eliminate scope 1 & 2 emissions
No NOx, SOx, or particulate matter
Sustainable
Easy siting, fast time-to-power
Easy integration, drop-in replacement
Modular and scalable
Flexible
Recent Announcements
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Diageo North America selected by U.S. DOE to install innovative heat battery technology to decarbonize production operations in Illinois and Kentucky
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EDP & Rondo Energy partner to decarbonize industrial heat production
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Rondo Energy Secures $60 Million from Global Giants and Leading Climate Investors to Speed Industrial Decarbonization
Our Products
RHB100 and RHB300
Electric thermal energy storage solutions for industrial heat and power.
“Rondo Energy’s technology fills in one of the biggest missing pieces to decarbonize our economy: renewable industrial heat.”
— Jon Costantino, Policy & Regulatory Advisor; Former Manager of Climate Change Planning for CA Air Resources Board
Industries & Applications
From calcining to cogeneration, from food processing to fuel production, Rondo’s Heat Battery is compatible with 90 percent of industrial processes and power needs. Our modular units are designed to serve the unique capacity and temperature requirements of each facility, and the output is configurable to customers’ specifications.
Steel
Cement
Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals
Low-Carbon Fuels & H2
Grid Energy Storage
Power Plant Conversion Refiring for 24/7 Clean Power
Mining
CCS & DAC
Food & Beverage
District Heating
Paper & Pulp
Alumina
Industrial Decarbonization: Challenges & Opportunities
Energy-intensive industrial processes power our economies and produce our commodities. But, the high-temperature heat they require is the world’s largest source of CO₂ emissions. Until now, intermittent renewables have struggled to provide 24/7 high-temperature power needed by industry.
Solar and wind electricity are now lower cost than fossil fuels, worldwide. An ideal solution for industry must meet the following criteria. It must be:
Cost-effective: Energy is a fundamental component of overall production costs.
Continuous: Around-the-clock operations require a constant energy supply.
Really hot: 75% of industry’s energy requirement is heat, at up to thousands of degrees.
Recent News
Resources
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Why electrifying industrial heat is such a big deal
A full quarter of global energy use goes toward heat that powers industrial processes. To provide clean industrial heat but avoid the variability often associated with renewable energy, a company called Rondo makes a thermal battery, storing renewable-energy heat in bricks.
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Catalyst: Solving the conundrum of industrial heat
In this episode, Shayle talks to John O’Donnell, co-founder and CEO of Rondo Energy, a thermal storage startup. (Shayle’s venture capital firm, Energy Impact Partners, has made investments in Rondo Energy.) They break down the challenges of industrial heat and discuss the range of technologies that could help generate it with low emissions.
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TED Talk: Can a simple brick be the next great battery?
The world relies on manufacturing, and manufacturing relies on heat — a massive contributor to global carbon emissions, responsible for a quarter of the world's fossil fuel use. Energy entrepreneur John O'Donnell has figured out a better, cleaner way to generate the heat we need to make the stuff we want. Learn how his team turned simple bricks and iron wire into a powerful, unconventional "heat battery" that could deliver industrial heat at scale without the emissions — and why he thinks electrified industrial heat is the next trillion-dollar industry.
Download the Rondo Heat Battery Data Sheet
To learn more about the Rondo Heat Battery product line, please download our data sheet here.