Finnish startup Polar Night Energy has announced its industrial-scale sand battery, the world's largest of its kind, is now operational
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By pairing computer processing facilities with district heating systems, countries like Finland and Sweden are trying to limit their environmental downsides
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Carved into rock beneath the Swedish city of Västerås, a huge man-made cave system is being used to heat local housing
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Finland is building the world's largest heat pump – will provide enough heat for 30,000 homes, saving roughly 26,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions each year
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Industrial-scale thermal storage unit in Pornainen, southern Finland, will be the world's biggest sand battery when it comes online within a couple of years
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Germany's MAN Energy Solutions installs world's largest seawater CO2 heat pump for district heating at the port of Esbjerg, Denmark
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Mälarenergi has embarked on a project to fill caverns underneath Västerås, Sweden with hot water – warmth will be sent via heat exchangers to a district heating network
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A new way of storing renewable energy is providing clean heat – the Vatajankoski power plant is home to the world's first commercial-scale sand battery
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Climate change: 'Sand battery' could solve green energy's big problem
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