The world's largest sand battery stores heat, then releases it on demand. But it's about to lose its title as the world's largest ...

Finland is harnessing the unexpected power of sand to decarbonise industrial heat – a major “blind spot” in global emissions. Industrial heat production is one of the largest and hardest-to-solve ...

Inside a dark corrugated steel silo in a forest clearing in Pornainen, a village of 5,000 people in southern Finland, 2,000 tonnes of crushed soapstone sit wrapped in pipes and foil insulation, heated ...

The community swimming pool in the Finnish town of Kankaanpää is heated with sand—well, a sand battery, to be more specific. Energy utility Vatajankoski has partnered with Polar Night Energy, a ...

A small town in Finland is experimenting with a new type of infrastructure: the world’s largest sand battery. The battery—a 42-foot-tall, nearly 50-foot-wide silo filled with 2,000 tons of crushed ...

Finnish startup Polar Night Energy and Loviisan Lämpö, a district heating company in Finland, plan to construct an industrial-scale thermal energy sand-based storage system in the municipality of ...

A research group from Ghana has developed a solar PV-powered steam cooker (ISESC) with sand-based thermal energy storage (TES). “The potential of sand, given its thermal stability and low cost, has ...

Finland-based thermal energy storage startup TheStorage has raised $4.2 million in a seed funding round to scale its ...

For more than a century, fossil fuel companies have drilled oil and gas wells to increase the production, consumption, and export of fossil fuels. These wells are often abandoned once they are no ...

Finland is harnessing the unexpected power of sand to decarbonise industrial heat – a major “blind spot” in global emissions. Industrial heat production is one of the largest and hardest-to-solve ...