{"id":148696,"date":"2022-10-22T16:24:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T21:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/worlds-first-commercial-sand-battery-begins-energy-storage-in-finland"},"modified":"2022-10-22T16:24:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T21:24:37","slug":"worlds-first-commercial-sand-battery-begins-energy-storage-in-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/worlds-first-commercial-sand-battery-begins-energy-storage-in-finland","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first commercial sand battery begins energy storage in Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NH4_2PFTzIY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Wind and solar power are intermittent, generating power when it\u2019s available rather than when it\u2019s needed, so the green energy transition will require huge amounts of energy storage. This could end up taking many forms, from conventional lithium-based \u201c<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/energy\/worlds-largest-battery-cep-energy-australia\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">big battery<\/a>\u201d installations, to <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/energy\/symmetrical-flow-battery-grid-scale-storage\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">flow batteries<\/a>, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/cct-silicon-energy-battery-thermal-energy-storage\/59098\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">silicon phase-change batteries<\/a>, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/energy\/molten-salt-battery-grid-scale-storage-low-temp\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">molten salt batteries<\/a>, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/energy\/form-energy-iron-air-battery-bezos\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">iron-air batteries<\/a>, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/energy\/gravitricity-gravity-renewable-energy-storage-system\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">gravity batteries<\/a>, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/energy\/energy-dome-co2-sardinia\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">carbon dioxide expansion batteries<\/a>, and other more unusual ideas like <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/energy\/buoyancy-energy-storage-iiasa\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">buoyancy batteries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Each has its own advantages and disadvantages in terms of efficiency, size, location, installation costs, operating costs, input and output power ratings, longevity and how long it can store the energy for. That\u2019s good, since different solutions will fill different needs \u2013 some backing up the power grid during instantaneous demand spikes, others smoothing out the mismatched daily curves between demand and renewable supply, and others still helping to address seasonal supply drops, like when solar drops off through the winter.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s another for the pile, coming out of Finland. Polar Night Energy says it\u2019s just opened its first commercial sand battery at the premises of \u201cnew energy\u201d company <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vatajankoski.fi\/maailman-ensimmainen-kaupallinen-hiekkaan-perustuva-lampovarasto-rakennetaan-suomeen\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Vatajankoski<\/a>, a few hours out of Helsinki.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wind and solar power are intermittent, generating power when it\u2019s available rather than when it\u2019s needed, so the green energy transition will require huge amounts of energy storage. This could end up taking many forms, from conventional lithium-based \u201cbig battery\u201d installations, to flow batteries, silicon phase-change batteries, molten salt batteries, iron-air batteries, gravity batteries, carbon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}