The IEA SHC Programme and the IEA Energy Storage Programme began collaborating in 2009. In this third joint Task on Compact Thermal Energy Storage: Materials within Components within Systems (SHC Task 67/ES Task 40), the objective is to accelerate the market introduction of Thermal Energy Storage (TES) materials. Over the past three years, one critical area of work has been developing and validating standardized TES measurement procedures for Phase Change Materials (PCM) and ThermoChemical Materials (TCM) and
maintaining material databases.