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

Energy from renewable sources can be stored in a sand heat storage system. A system with circulating sand is said to be ...

Polar Night Energy has developed a thermal energy storage system which supplements renewable energy sources and reduces our ...

Finland is turning one of the planet’s most ordinary materials into a high impact climate tool, using hot sand to store vast amounts of energy and release it as heat when homes and factories need it ...

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 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 ...

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 ...