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

Heat batteries quietly solve a major transition gap, storing surplus renewable electricity as heat.

An energy supplier in Finland has announced the upcoming construction of an underground seasonal thermal energy storage facility about the size of two Madison Square Gardens that could meet the ...

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

The Finnish start-up says its sand battery technology is scalable from 20 to 500 MWh with charging power from 1 to 20 MW, depending on industrial needs.

Finland has inaugurated an industrial-scale sand battery this week in the southern town of Pornainen, where it'll take over heating duties from an old woodchip power plant for the municipality. It's ...

Scientists from China have developed a novel optimization method for medium-depth ground source heat pumps, using an improved chaos particle swarm optimization. They coupled it with either a heat ...

RedoxBlox, a San Diego-based energy storage startup, is focused on decarbonizing two critical areas of the economy: industrial heat for difficult-to-decarbonize sectors and renewable energy storage ...

When spring arrives and the heating season comes to an end, keeping warm becomes less of an issue. However, scientists remind us that it is not just a seasonal necessity – heat is also a valuable ...