In our latest episode of Lexicon, we sat down with Annette Höglund-Dönnes, Chief Commercial ...

Polar Night Energy and Vatajankoski, an energy utility based in Western Finland, have together constructed a sand-based thermal energy storage. It is the world's first commercial solution to store ...

Discover how sand batteries could revolutionize home energy storage. This video explores the use of sand as a thermal energy ...

Forward-looking: A Finnish startup has secured $7.6 million Euro ($8.2 million) in seed funding to scale up its unique sand battery technology. The money will be used to grow the company's sales and R ...

Scientists in Ghana have developed a device that combines a conventional solar PV-powered steam cooker with sand-based thermal energy storage. The system can achieve a thermal efficiency of 38.9% and ...

Finland is harnessing the unexpected power of sand to decarbonise industrial heat – a major "blind spot" in global emissions. Industrial heat production is one of the largest and hardest-to-solve ...

A small town in Finland is about to ditch fossil fuels in its heating network thanks to a sand-filled energy storage tank the size of a house. Finnish startup Polar Night Energy recently turned on the ...

Last month, Finnish startup Polar Night Energy announced that it is building a giant sand battery capable of heating a town of 5,000 people for up to a month. That’s on a single charge. Polar Night is ...

A small town in Finland is experimenting with a new type of infrastructure: the world’s largest sand battery. The battery—a 42-foot-tall, nearly 50-foot-wide silo filled with 2,000 tons of crushed ...

Finnish startup Polar Night Energy is teaming up with a district heating company to construct an industrial-scale thermal energy storage system in southern Finland. The sand-based system will use ...

Homerun Resources Inc (OTCQB:HMRFF) has signed a multi-party shared resource/funds-in Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable ...