Global geopolitical instability over the past decade has made one thing clear: businesses that rely on fossil fuels are exposed to significant risk. Forward‑looking industrial leaders are discovering a compelling pathway to greater resilience and cost stability: electrifying their thermal processes using renewable energy and thermal energy storage. 

Industrial boilers have been the backbone of the industrial sector for centuries, providing the heat required to manufacture the products and materials we consume today. Historically, boilers powered by fossil fuels have provided the affordable and reliable supply of power that keeps operations hot. But things have changed.

At MGA Thermal, we’re often asked why we’ve built our technology around latent heat rather than conventional sensible heat systems. The answer is simple: it saves customers money while delivering stable, reliable performance.

Australia’s food and beverage sector is clearly resilient. Biodiversity hazards, climate disasters, supply chain challenges and international competition are ever present business risks for growers, processors and retailers of Australia’s produce. During tough times it’s rational to focus on survival, however short-sighted decisions typically do not deliver long-term growth.

Our friends at Aratherm and the Australian Alliance for Energy Productivity have recently launched a Heat Battery Estimator. This online tool allows Australian manufacturers to explore the benefits of electrifying process heating using thermal energy storage to reduce energy costs and emissions.  

Industrial operations often depend on steam - and any interruption can mean lost productivity, increased costs, and unnecessary complexity. Simultaneous electrical charging and steam discharge is key.

Australia’s clean energy momentum is undeniable – but without long-duration storage, reliability and industry resilience are at risk. Discover how Electro-Thermal Energy Storage (ETES) could be the game-changer we need.

Thermal energy storage (TES) systems store energy as heat and are a type of long-duration energy storage (LDES), meaning many of the technologies can store energy for over 10 hours.

In ‘Why Long Duration Energy Storage is the Solution to Industrial Decarbonisation’ MGA Thermal covered the impact of industrial emissions – which contribute to over 25% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, generating over 12.5 billion tons of CO2 emissions in 2021 (LDES Council 2023).

Industrial emissions currently contribute to over 25% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, generating over 12.5 billion tons of CO2 emissions in 2021 (LDES Council 2023)!

Installed rooftop solar will soon generate more power than Australia’s remaining coal plants, that’s over 20GW of combined grid-connected capacity! There’s clearly a lot of rooftop solar, but how does it affect the whole grid system?

Our electricity network was historically created for baseload power through thermal fossil fuel power plants and therefore works best with the conditions provided by those generators.

This is the first article in our informative series on the energy market. We’ll start with some foundations – a basic explanation of the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) and how it functions.

The MGA technology allows for clean energy storage and the material itself will not negatively affect intergenerational quality of life.