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Amid Global Grid Stress, Brenmiller Energy Emerges as a Trusted Ally for Energy Reliability ($BNRG)

By: AB Newswire

August 08, 2025 at 05:46 AM EDT

Amid Global Grid Stress, Brenmiller Energy Emerges as a Trusted Ally for Energy Reliability ($BNRG)

The world isn’t short on ambition when it comes to energy. But right now—this summer—it’s being tested on something far more urgent: resilience.

From Phoenix to Paris, record-breaking heatwaves are pushing power grids to their limits. Utilities are scrambling to keep up with surging demand for air conditioning. Industry is being asked to throttle down. And for millions of people, the simple act of flipping on a light or cooling their home has become a question of whether the grid can hold.

That’s not a policy debate. That’s physics. And in moments like this, when energy reliability moves from the background to the forefront of public conversation, a new class of solutions begins to shine.

Brenmiller Energy (NASDAQ: BNRG) is one of them. This isn’t about solar versus gas, wind versus nuclear, or storage versus generation. Everyone in the energy sector—regardless of technology—deserves credit for getting us this far. The transition is real. The will is there. But these stress tests we’re seeing globally are a reminder that the journey doesn’t end with clean energy. It continues with reliable energy.

And that’s where thermal energy storage, especially at an industrial scale, proves its value—not someday, but today.

Proof-in-Practice, Not Theory

Brenmiller’s bGen™ platform doesn’t wait for the wind to blow or the sun to shine. It captures heat—any source, anytime—and stores it in crushed rocks. That heat can then be dispatched with precision when needed most, even in the middle of the night or during a midday grid crunch. And because the system is modular and flexible, it works just as well alongside renewables as it does with combined heat and power, industrial waste heat, or even future-facing integrations like small modular reactors.

This summer may feel like a turning point for public awareness, but for Brenmiller, it’s simply the latest proof point in a string of real-world deployments. A new version of BNRG's bGen™ platform is being developed to serve Enel in Italy and multiple European manufacturing partners. And more significantly, Brenmiller has been selected to play a central role in two of the EU’s most ambitious clean heat initiatives: SolWinHy, an advanced €25 million solar-to-hydrogen project, and a €4 million Innovation Fund grant project to replace fossil fuels in district heating systems.

Each of these efforts moves thermal storage from concept to cornerstone.

And it’s not just funding that’s flowing—it’s commitments. These are public-private partnerships designed to scale. They represent Europe’s confidence in Brenmiller’s execution, and more broadly, in the role thermal energy must play to meet the continent’s decarbonization and grid reliability goals.

From Crisis Mode to Control

The headlines have made it impossible to ignore: heat domes, wildfires, rolling blackouts—climate volatility is no longer a distant warning. It’s here, and it’s straining the grid in real time.

But alongside the crisis, a different conversation is starting to take hold—one that moves past warnings and toward real solutions. Not hypotheticals or pilot programs, but technologies that are ready now. Precisely like Brenmiller’s bGen™.

Thermal energy storage may not make front-page news like hydrogen hubs or offshore wind, but its impact is just as critical. In fact, it’s one of the most immediate, effective tools to harden infrastructure against the very stressors we’re seeing this summer. It’s safe. It’s modular. It’s already working—and most importantly, it’s available when the grid needs it most.

That’s why this moment matters.

Because instead of more debates and delays, it’s time to focus on those who are delivering. And Brenmiller is doing exactly that.

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