Charles Forsberg

Charles Forsberg is a systems and applications advisor at Electrified Thermal Solutions. Charles previously worked as a doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from September 2014 to February 2021. Charles's work focused on Firebrick Resistance-heated energy storage (FIRES) with Dr. Charles Forsberg in the department of Nuclear Science and Engineering.

FIRES storage technology aims to enable the move to low-carbon energy sectors by addressing problems of mismatch in energy supply and demand and the resulting electricity price collapse that otherwise cripples the economics of renewables and nuclear power. FIRES stores electricity as heat in high temperature firebrick (~1800 C) for use in industrial heat applications in place of fossil fuels. This enables the sale of electricity, especially by wind solar and nuclear plants, to the industrial heating markets at times of surplus electricity generation, reducing the need for fuels. FIRES can also be coupled to combined cycle natural gas (NGCC) plants or next generation zero-carbon brayton cycles (nuclear or solar-based) with round-trip efficiencies from 55-70%, providing a grid storage alternative less expensive than batteries.

Charles Forsberg received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Syracuse University. Charles then went on to earn a Doctor of Philosophy in Nuclear Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.