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MGA Thermal
Empowering renewables through thermal energy storage
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Erich Kisi CEO
Alexander Post CTO
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MGA Thermal technology is a newly invented type of thermal storage material, Miscibility Gap Alloys (MGA). These alloys can store a huge amount of energy as heat, in a safe and easy to use way.
Modular blocks of MGA are stacked into insulated storage tanks, which can store energy for use in a range of applications – improving the electrical grid’s stability, residential and commercial space heating, industrial process/waste heat, and even electric vehicles. Their first focus though, is enabling intermittent renewable energy sources such as the sun and wing, to provide base load electricity to the grid.
What (and whose) problem is your company trying to solve?
We are solving the problem of how to firm and dispatch renewable energy on demand by providing an affordable, scalable, medium duration energy storage solution. This helps renewable energy generators by creating a market in times of oversupply of renewables, manufacturing companies by providing a source of firmed thermal energy from renewable sources and thermal power station asset owners by enabling retro-fit.
Erich Kisi
CEO, MGA Thermal
Erich Kisi is the CEO of MGA Thermal, a company dedicated to the provision of cost effective scalable thermal energy storage materials and associated knowhow. He is a co-inventor of the patented Miscibility Gap Alloy (MGA) thermal energy storage materials with 10 years of development experience in that field. A former Professor in Materials Science at the University of Newcastle in Australia, he has more than 35 years of experience in academic and applied research leading to two books, >170 refereed papers, three patents and five members of the MGA team who are Erich’s former PhD students.
What does your company need most right now?
We are scaling up our manufacturing in powers of ten every year as well as developing new products. One of our challenges is simultaneously scaling our team.