GreenLab will use a Rondo Heat Battery (RHB) to replace fossil fuels tied to heat consumption for its industrial site partners, offering CO2-neutral heat, or “green heat”, at cost parity. Facts: 💪 GreenLab has signed an agreement for a 100MWh heat battery from Rondo Energy. 🌡 The system provides 100MWh ceramic heat storage system with the capability to operate at temperatures up to 1500°C. ⚡ Rondo’s system will be directly connected to the 84 MW hybrid wind and solar park adjacent to GreenLab. 🌍 The thermal battery storage facility is expected to become operational in 2025 and when completed will be one of the largest in Europe. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dxKVfc2Q
Rondo Energy
Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
Oakland, California 15,607 followers
Zero-Carbon Industrial Heat: The Rondo Heat Battery
About us
We're hiring!! Rondo is delivering the world's lowest cost zero-carbon industrial heat. The Rondo Heat Battery powers industrial processes with renewable electricity, cutting energy costs and eliminating emissions. We deliver complete solutions to large-scale industrial energy needs worldwide - both as major capital projects and on a Heat as a Service basis. The Rondo Heat Battery provides temperatures up to 1,500°C, at less than half the cost and twice the efficiency of hydrogen.
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http://rondo.com
External link for Rondo Energy
- Industry
- Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Oakland, California
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- Privately Held
- Specialties
- Industrial Heat, Renewable Energy, and Scope 1
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Employees at Rondo Energy
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John O'Donnell
Powering Industry with Renewable Energy. We're Hiring!
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Amber Allred
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Nathan Osborne
Mechanical Design Engineering Manager | Battery Development, Product Development
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Eric Trusiewicz
Industrial Decarbonization | Rondo Energy | Stanford University | Breakthrough Energy Ventures | Cement & Concrete CO2
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1,000,000 Views. Congratulations to John O'Donnell for passing the incredible milestone of 1 million views on his TED Conferences Talk "Can a simple brick be the next great battery?" across TED's website and YouTube: https://lnkd.in/g7s9G8ib At Rondo, we are deeply committed to accelerating industrial decarbonization. Our approach combines cutting-edge research, advanced engineering, and a relentless focus on simplicity and robustness to create a scalable, cost-effective solution for industrial heat and power. For those who haven't seen it yet, John's talk is a must-watch and a great primer on the Rondo technology, as well as the challenges and opportunities in industrial decarbonization.
John O'Donnell: Can a simple brick be the next great battery?
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We're proud to be partnering with H&M to further strengthen their already impressive climate strategy. Read more about it via GreenBiz here: "H&M’s goal is to adopt 100 percent renewable energy and reach net zero by 2040. Rondo of Alameda, California, claims its heat-retaining bricks are cheaper than fossil fuels and safer than lithium-ion batteries. The company uses electricity from renewable sources to heat thousands of tons of bricks up to 2,732 degrees Fahrenheit. The bricks are then used as heat batteries to supply hot air or steam for customers at a constant temperature. Less than 1 percent of the heat leaks out each day, according to the company." And special shoutout to david roberts and Volts for this "partnership born from a podcast". Super cool stuff here! "One of H&M's climate leads reached out to Rondo after hearing about its product on the podcast "Volts," Rondo Energy’s new CEO, Eric Trusiewicz, told GreenBiz. Within several months, they were working together. "It was a very quick process, and it was because they're so sustainability focused," he said of H&M. "They have a pretty well articulated internal group working on that, and they have already done quite a bit of thought on that." https://lnkd.in/dnN8it2x
How H&M will push suppliers to use thermal batteries for energy | GreenBiz
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A very nice feature on Rondo via Canary Media Inc.: Rondo’s heat batteries will soon be cleaning up factories in US, Europe. "... In Europe, Rondo last month won a commitment of 75 million euros ($80.6 million) from Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, the Bill Gates–founded investment group and an early Rondo backer, along with the European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB). The funding will support projects at a chemicals plant in Germany owned by Covestro; at GreenLab, a green industrial park in Denmark; and at an undisclosed food-and-beverage processing facility. In the U.S., Rondo’s “heat batteries” — refractory brick blocks that can reach up to 1,500 degrees Celsius — started supplying heat to an ethanol plant in California last year. Under projects announced this year, the batteries are set to be installed in distilleries in Illinois and Kentucky owned by international spirits manufacturer Diageo and at a plastics recycling facility being built in Texas by chemicals giant Eastman — projects that are backed by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grants now being negotiated by the companies involved." https://lnkd.in/gibHMt6t
Rondo's heat batteries will soon be cleaning up factories in US,…
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We're thrilled to be working with Covestro to deploy an RHB100 heat battery, which is scheduled to begin operation at Covestro’s Brunsbüttel site at the end of 2026. The project will produce ten percent of the steam required at the site, saving up to 13,000 tons of CO2 emissions per year. “Rondo Heat Batteries deliver deep decarbonization by changing the fuel, not the factory,” said Eric Trusiewicz, CEO of Rondo Energy. “We’re honored to be working with Covestro to prove our safety, reliability, and efficiency under real conditions on a large scale over a long period of time. And we’re excited to be deploying in Brunsbüttel, where large flexible electricity loads are particularly valuable to the electricity grid.” Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/e6mPK99D
Together with Rondo Energy we install an innovative heat battery for the first time at our site in Brunsbüttel 🇩🇪. The Rondo Heat Battery stores intermittent renewable electricity and delivers continuous high-temperature steam, offering a sustainable alternative to steam generation with fossil fuels. Bill Gates Breakthrough Energy Catalyst foundation and the European Investment Bank (EIB) are supporting this installation scheduled to begin operation in 2026. Another benefit of this project: it will save up to 13,000 tons of CO2 emissions per year. ♻ ℹ Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/e6mPK99D
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Breaking News: Rondo Energy announces €75M project funding with Breakthrough Energy Catalyst and the European Investment Bank. Three Rondo Heat Battery installations will decarbonize food, clean fuel, and chemical production across Europe. Today at the Breakthrough Energy Summit, Rondo Energy, Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, the European Commission, and the European Investment Bank (EIB) announced €75 million in funding that will support three groundbreaking industrial decarbonization projects in Europe. Rondo will use the funding to expand its European presence and build projects delivering low-cost clean energy under long-term contracts. Each project has been optimized to capture low-cost intermittent energy from local and remote wind and solar resources, to deliver “drop-in decarbonization” for producers of food and beverage, clean fuel, and chemical production. The facilities will deliver low-cost, continuous, high-pressure, zero-carbon steam and power as a service. Rondo Heat Batteries (RHBs) combine century-old materials and cutting-edge automation to turn intermittent renewable electricity into the continuous, high-temperature heat and power required by industries. Drop-In Decarbonization for Covestro's Chemical Production: Covestro, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of high-quality polymer materials and their components, has selected Rondo to deliver clean energy services at a production facility in Northern Germany. An RHB100 will be delivering continuous steam powered by intermittent renewable energy, contributing to Covestro’s deep commitment to circularity and decarbonization. Heat battery replaces fossil fuels in GreenLab’s green industrial park: GreenLab is a pioneer green and circular industrial park in Denmark, that works to demonstrate how energy waste can be reduced in industry. Rondo will build a “clean utilities core” supplying the companies in GreenLab with green heat. An RHB100 powered by renewables will generate high pressure steam to drive a CHP steam turbine generator cycle, translating intermittent electricity into baseload heat and power for multiple companies at the park. One of the first companies in the park to benefit from Rondo’s heat battery will be using the green heat to produce low-carbon biogas, eliminating the use of fossil fuels in the process. This first installation will establish the performance, processes, and tools needed to expand the clean utilities core at GreenLab and to build other parks like this one powered by the wind and the sun. Decarbonizing Food & Beverage Production: Rondo will also build a third project that charges from on-site and off-site solar, delivering deep decarbonization for a European producer in the food and beverage sector, with further details to be announced soon. More details: https://lnkd.in/gcjziQca
Rondo Energy announces €75M project funding with Breakthrough Energy Catalyst and the European Investment Bank — Rondo Energy
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Breaking News: Rondo Energy announces €75M project funding with Breakthrough Energy Catalyst and the European Investment Bank. Three Rondo Heat Battery installations will decarbonize food, clean fuel, and chemical production across Europe. Today at the Breakthrough Energy Summit, Rondo Energy, Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, the European Commission, and the European Investment Bank (EIB) announced €75 million in funding that will support three groundbreaking industrial decarbonization projects in Europe. Rondo will use the funding to expand its European presence and build projects delivering low-cost clean energy under long-term contracts. Each project has been optimized to capture low-cost intermittent energy from local and remote wind and solar resources, to deliver “drop-in decarbonization” for producers of food and beverage, clean fuel, and chemical production. The facilities will deliver low-cost, continuous, high-pressure, zero-carbon steam and power as a service. Rondo Heat Batteries (RHBs) combine century-old materials and cutting-edge automation to turn intermittent renewable electricity into the continuous, high-temperature heat and power required by industries. Drop-In Decarbonization for Covestro's Chemical Production: Covestro, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of high-quality polymer materials and their components, has selected Rondo to deliver clean energy services at a production facility in Northern Germany. An RHB100 will be delivering continuous steam powered by intermittent renewable energy, contributing to Covestro’s deep commitment to circularity and decarbonization. Heat battery replaces fossil fuels in GreenLab’s green industrial park: GreenLab is a pioneer green and circular industrial park in Denmark, that works to demonstrate how energy waste can be reduced in industry. Rondo will build a “clean utilities core” supplying the companies in GreenLab with green heat. An RHB100 powered by renewables will generate high pressure steam to drive a CHP steam turbine generator cycle, translating intermittent electricity into baseload heat and power for multiple companies at the park. One of the first companies in the park to benefit from Rondo’s heat battery will be using the green heat to produce low-carbon biogas, eliminating the use of fossil fuels in the process. This first installation will establish the performance, processes, and tools needed to expand the clean utilities core at GreenLab and to build other parks like this one powered by the wind and the sun. Decarbonizing Food & Beverage Production: Rondo will also build a third project that charges from on-site and off-site solar, delivering deep decarbonization for a European producer in the food and beverage sector, with further details to be announced soon. More details: https://lnkd.in/gcjziQca
Rondo Energy announces €75M project funding with Breakthrough Energy Catalyst and the European Investment Bank — Rondo Energy
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We're thrilled to join H&M Group to help them further strengthen their climate strategy! The new collaboration will help Rondo deliver clean, affordable heat powering textile factories around the world. Rondo Heat Batteries combine century-old materials and cutting-edge automation to turn intermittent renewable electricity into the continuous, high-temperature heat and power required by industries including textile producers. H&M Group and Rondo will explore opportunities for factories in the group’s global supply chain to replace fossil fuels with clean heat and power delivered by Rondo Heat Batteries. Rondo will use H&M Group Ventures’ investment to expand its international operations and to develop and build storage projects serving this need. Thank you Laura Coppen and team!
Welcome to our newest investment: Rondo Energy. The company makes heat batteries that turn intermittent electricity into continuous, high-temperature heat and power, perfect for textile factories. “Rondo is H&M Group Venture's first investment in decarbonisation technology. The company's thermal battery energy storage has the potential to help factories electrify, which is key to achieving our climate targets. We look forward to working closely with Rondo and the broader ecosystem in scaling decarb tech”, says Laura Coppen, Investment Manager at H&M Group Ventures. This latest investment will support our ongoing work to decarbonise our supply chain. The next step is to explore how Rondo’s technology could be used in our supplier factories. #Investment #HMGroup #HMGroupVentures #Decarbonisation #Climate #SupplyChain
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Rondo is pleased to introduce our new CEO! Eric Trusiewicz is stepping up after spending the last few years with Rondo as President, Advisor, and Board Member. Eric has deep experience working with venture-backed startups in the climate tech ecosystem and is an expert in cement decarbonization with over a decade of experience in executive roles across Europe and the United States. Founder John O'Donnell continues on as Chief Innovation Officer. Read more about the company's story and leadership transition here: https://lnkd.in/gckdrXvw
I have a great piece of news to share with you. Eric Trusiewicz has stepped up to lead Rondo Energy as CEO and I am taking up the role of Chief Innovation Officer. This is a moment we’ve been working towards for years. Eric has been an important part of the Rondo team since early on, starting as a strategic advisor in early 2021 when we were still in a garage, and stepping up as our President in 2023. Today he’s taking on the role of CEO, and I couldn’t be more proud. On four continents we’re now contracting, engineering, and building heat battery projects that create value for ourselves, our customers, and our partners. Eric’s experience has been hugely valuable as we now build the worldwide organization and continue to raise capital to deliver these projects and set the foundation for our next stage of growth. We’ve spent the last year working on and planning for this transition, and it’s already going great. I have deep confidence that Eric will make Rondo the #1 trusted supplier worldwide of low-cost, zero-carbon process energy. I’m looking forward to continuing to work together with him and the rest of the leadership team to build an amazing company. Rondo has opened the path to supply the energy used for the world’s manufacturing using intermittent electricity. We created the definitive Heat Battery. Our physics breakthrough let us build the world’s safest, highest temperature, most efficient energy storage of any kind, using cheap, widely available, safest material for energy storage: brick. We eliminated electrochemistry, we eliminated critical minerals, and we completely eliminated risks of fire, gas release, or toxics. I’m now taking up the role of Chief Innovation Officer, and will be working with strategic partners on new uses of Rondo’s technology platform. Rondo today has investment partnerships with some of the world’s largest miners, data center operators, renewables developers, and producers of fuels, chemicals, building materials, food, beverages, and clothing. I’m thrilled to be working with these partners to find the ways we can make the biggest contributions in their businesses. And I’m excited to identify and work with new partners as we learn how to extend our reach. Rondo can cut world CO2 emissions by fifteen percent in fifteen years while cutting the costs of producing everything from baby food to cement. We face one of the great business opportunities of our time, tackling one of the greatest challenges of all time. I look forward to continuing to work with Eric, the whole Rondo team, and with you on this journey.
Introducing Rondo’s New CEO! — Rondo Energy
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We're thrilled to announce that Rondo Energy is partnering with Eastman to deploy Rondo Heat Batteries (RHBs) at their molecular recycling project in Longview, Texas. Eastman is already a leader in building a circular economy. Rondo is excited to be joining their journey by helping to transform plastic waste into valuable materials while significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions. “This can be a true game changer for providing low- or zero-carbon power for industrial processes,” Eastman's Neil Brown said. “Anywhere there are great needs for process heat — and Eastman uses a lot of heat to power our processes — thermal batteries can be a solution because you’re able to store heat for so long with so little loss. Another plus of building this new facility at an existing site is that if we run into challenges as we’re integrating the new thermal technology, we have backup steam and power systems in place to allow continued operations.” A big thank you to Eastman. Together, we're breaking new ground for clean energy and circular economy solutions! 🔗 Learn more about the project here: https://lnkd.in/gi9WaFw9
Groundbreaking clean energy with molecular recycling | Eastman
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