A start-up in Finland unveils the world’s first commercial heat storage system using sand to solve the problem of the ...

Energy in Finland has developed the world’s first commercial sand-based heat storage battery system, potentially providing a ...

A Swiss company is making the most of hydroelectric power with a storage equivalent of over 400,000 EV batteries in a ...

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Finnish companies Polar Night Energy and Vatajankoski have built the world's first operational "sand battery", which provides a low-cost and low-emissions way to store renewable energy.

That’s why new technology that stores summer heat in a giant sand battery could be used to keep homes warm and toasty in the ...

A Wodonga pet food factory is preparing to take delivery of a technology that experts say will help businesses get off gas, ...

The world's first commercial "sand battery" stores heat at 500 degrees Celsius for months at a time It can be used to heat homes and offices and provide high-temperature heat for industrial ...

The inhabitants of Kankaanpää in western Finland need not worry as much about heating in the coming winter as so many Europeans. About a hundred homes, a few offices and the municipal swimming pool in ...

Is sand the material that could one day replace lithium in batteries for renewable energy technologies? Such is the idea of a team of Finnish engineers who have developed a new kind of battery.

In the city of Tampere in western Finland, a pump pushes hot air into a large container of builders sand. These rough and ready grains are surprisingly effective at retaining heat, storing it ...