This big, sand-filled energy storage silo can be powered by wind and solar

Finnish startup Polar Night Energy and local Finnish utility Vatajankoski have together built the world’s first commercial sand-based, high-temperature heat storage system that can be powered by solar and wind.
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As we reported this morning, Finland’s government announced its most recent climate goals this week and became the latest of a series of countries announcing their plans for an imminent phase-out of coal-fired power plants, but the country also announced its ambition to dramatically increase the number of electric vehicles on its roads.
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