• World's first commercial sand battery installed in Finland

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    World's first commercial sand battery installed in Finland
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    Polar Night Energy and Vatajankoski, an energy utility based in
    Western Finland, have installed sand-based thermal energy storage, the
    world's first commercial solution to store electricity in the sand as
    heat to be used in a district heating network. The sand battery, which
    has a hundred tons of sand inside, is placed in Vatajankoski's power
    plant area, and it provides heat for Vatajankoski's district heating
    network in Kankaanpaa.

    https://www.inceptivemind.com/worlds-first-commercial-sand-battery-installed-finland/25335/

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