MiniStor Project 

MiniStor, a Horizon 2020 project, has produced and tested a high-density thermal storage system in multiple climate conditions and home configurations, providing both heating and cooling in an integrated yet flexible unit. 

Operating year round, MiniStor provides energy security across Europe’s residential sector with a thermal storage density well over 10 times that of water, a practical solution for leveraging the variability of renewable energy sources. 

Seventeen partners across the European Union and Switzerland, coordinated by IERC, developed and tested controllable and high-capacity thermal storage to increase the use of renewable energy based sources in new and existing residential buildings, providing a minimal-size solution for all climates and home configurations in the EU. 

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 869821