Enlit World’s Louise Davis profiles Electrified Thermal CEO Daniel Stack on the most overlooked front of the energy transition: the heat that industry runs on. Stack walks through why industrial heat has resisted electrification — furnaces that need 1,000°C and above, running around the clock — and how the Joule Hive™ Thermal Battery gives clean electricity the two properties that made fossil fuels win: storability and dispatchability.
“Industrial heat is the largest energy problem most people have never heard of.”
— Daniel Stack, CEO & Co-founder
The conversation covers the economics that make electrified heat competitive without subsidies — power prices now swing enormously within a single day, letting the battery charge during the cheapest hours and discharge heat on demand — along with the firebrick breakthrough that takes grid electricity directly at over 13 kV and delivers hot air up to 1,800°C. Stack also reflects on what the first commercial deployment at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio really proved: “what convinced people wasn’t the peak temperature, it was the boring stuff working.”
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