Finland is leading the race to decarbonise industrial heat emissions, using sand to produce fossil-free steam.

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 ...

Energy from renewable sources can be stored in a sand heat storage system. A system with circulating sand is said to be particularly effective. Finnish start-up The Storage has installed a heat ...

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 Finnish-Swedish consortium has designed a hybrid system that uses photovoltaics and solar thermal energy separately to provide steam to industrial facilities. The PV unit is coupled to a sand-based ...

In our ongoing quest for sustainable energy solutions, innovative technologies are necessary to complement renewable sources like solar and wind power. One such potential breakthrough revolves around ...

The systems, which can store clean energy as heat, were chosen by readers as the 11th Breakthrough Technology of 2024. We need heat to make everything from steel bars to ketchup packets. Today, a ...

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 ...