Flexibility for the energy transition
Cartesian unlocks the power of thermal energy storage to help the world’s most energy-intensive sectors to boost energy efficiency and rapidly reduce their carbon footprint.
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Our technology
We provide modular and cost-effective energy storage systems for large heating and cooling systems. Cartesian’s solutions help you optimise your energy usage to balance your grid capacity and save surplus energy for later use.
Our systems are based on 10 years of research and development on thermal energy storage at SINTEF – one of Europe’s largest independent research organisations.
Modular design to allow scaling for every use-case
Concept based on 10+ years
of R&D at SINTEF
Wide temperature range
(from -20°C to 120 °C) for the technology architecture, simply by adapting the PCM material
Robust, with lifetime expectancy of minimum 25 years
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Our Story
Cartesian is a spin-out from SINTEF Energy Research. The company is owned by its four founders, SINTEF Venture, Kongsberg Innovation and Eviny Ventures.
Our thermal energy storage technology has been developed at SINTEF in collaboration with industry partners through a series of research and demo projects in 2017-2023, including FME HighEFF, PCM-STORE and PCM-STOVE.
Our first 200-kWh demo at NTNU/SINTEF’s Zero Emission Building in Trondheim has been in operation for about three years with successful results beyond expections. Our second reference installation (combined to CO2 cooling in a supermarket) was put in operation in Q2-2024. Two additional reference installations are on their way to be installed in Q4-2024.
The backstory
Our story is all about complementarity. On the one hand, Alexis Sevault focused his research at SINTEF Energy Research on developing a compact heat storage technology to help decarbonise both buildings and industry processes.
On the other hand, Håkon Selvnes focused his PhD at NTNU onto finding a compact solution to store cold energy for the largest and most energy-efficient food processing factory in Norway, which Arne Fredrik Lånke was helping design.
After several years of development, publishing and proving the concept, they both met when it came to demonstrating their findings into actual prototypes. That’s when they figured out that they could use the exact same technology design for both cold and heat storage.
They later met Asle Jostein Hovda at SINTEF TTO who guided them through the path of commercialisation and introduced them to Frode Iglebæk, a seasoned CEO with extensive experience in business development and commercialization of research-based technology.
All together they founded Cartesian AS in 2023 to push the technology to its final aim of decarbonising buildings and industry processes and realise its full potential.
Interested in learning more about our technology?
See the live data from our demo 200-kWh PCM-based heat storage at the ZEB-laboratory.
Contact us
Headquarters: Trondheim, Norway
Visiting address
Cartesian AS
Tempevegen 22
7031 Trondheim
Norway
Tel: +47 905 09 782
Registered business address
Cartesian AS
Tempevegen 22
7031 Trondheim
Norway
Enterprise no: 830 975 012
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Cartesian AS
Tempevegen 22
7031 Trondheim