Manufacturing of the flue gas-/air heat exchanger is almost finished. The manufacturing of the storage modules has commenced, the isolation material is ordered, the high temperature valves are already available. First tests of the measurement equipment will take place end of June 2015.
Engineering works for the ORCTES-plant are full steam ahead ongoing. The heat exchanger for transfering the heat to air as heat carrier medium has been ordered at company GEA Ecoflex.
STORASOL, enolcon and the Steinbeis-company ATEV located at University of Bayreuth are signing the contract about the realization of the large scale high temperature thermal energy storage HTTES (Project name ORCTES).