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The battery’s thermal energy storage capacity equates to almost one month’s heat demand in summer and a one-week demand in winter in Pornainen, Polar Night Energy says. Construction and testing of the 13 metres high by 15 metres wide battery is estimated to take around 13 months, meaning it should be keeping residents warm well before winter 2025.
Testing of the Sand Battery will begin during the winter, with commissioning set for 2025. In 2022, Polar Night Energy switched on the world’s first commercial sand-based, high-temperature heat storage system in the Finnish city of Kankaanpää, with 100 kW of power output and 8 MWh of storage capacity.
The industrial-scale storage unit in Pornainen, southern Finland, will be the world’s biggest sand battery when it comes online within a year. Capable of storing 100 MWh of thermal energy from solar and wind sources, it will enable residents to eliminate oil from their district heating network, helping to cut emissions by nearly 70 per cent.
It will use gravity to retain excess power for when it is needed. The remote Finnish community of Pyhäjärvi is 450 kilometres north of Helsinki. Its more than 1,400-metre-deep zinc and copper Pyhäsalmi mine was decommissioned but is now being given a new lease of life by Scotland-based company Gravitricity.
In particular, Neoen owns and operates some of the world’s largest batteries, including: Victorian Big Battery (300 MW / 450 MWh), Western Downs Battery (270 MW / 540 MWh) and the world’s first big battery Hornsdale Power Reserve (150 MW / 193.5 MWh), all located in Australia.
The new Sand Battery in Pornainen will be filled with crushed soapstone, a by-product of Tulikivi’s heat-retaining fireplace production. A total of 2,000 tons of soapstone will be used in the Sand Battery, equivalent to the weight of about a thousand soapstone fireplaces. The filling process was completed at the end of October.
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