MARKETSSTORY 605· JULY 25, 2026

Finland's small-town answer to renewable energy's hardest problem

A small Finnish town is operating the world's largest commercial sand battery, a storage system that converts surplus electricity into heat held inside ordinary sand, then releases it when the grid runs short. The technology targets…

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