The new Building Load Deferment (BLD) system, from HIGHMARK, New York City, is a pre-engineered thermal energy storage system, enabling energy usage to be deferred to off-peak hours via ice storage and then utilizing that ice for the building’s chilled water system during peak hours, for energy savings of up to 50 percent.

Tozour Energy Systems, a provider of HVAC systems and services, came together with other industry experts at the Franklin Institute to discuss the economic, environmental, and design benefits of thermal storage solutions.

The growing demand for uninterrupted power supply has resulted in the growth of the global thermal energy storage market, which is expected to post a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.7 percent from 2015-2019, according to research firm Technavio.

Ice Energy announced it has been awarded a five-year contract from Riverside Public Utilities to provide 5 megawatts of behind-the-meter thermal energy storage using Ice Energy’s proprietary Ice Bear system. The program will kick off this spring.

CALMAC®, a supplier of ice-based energy storage systems, has announced a new energy bill analysis service for commercial building owners and facility or energy managers. The free online service allows organizations to upload a copy of an electricity bill through the CALMAC website to be analyzed by a rate specialist.

CALMAC® has announced the installation of its ice-based thermal energy storage tanks at Sarasota County School District’s Oak Park School in south Florida, which now gives the district a total of 20 MW of energy storage among 36 schools. In 2013 alone the school district realized over $2 million in energy cost savings.