A tower of the concrete blocks — weighing 35 metric tons each — can store a maximum of 20 megawatt-hours (MWh), which Energy Vault says is enough to power 2,000 Swiss homes for an entire day. According to Quartz, the Swiss startup is planning to build their first commercial plants starting early 2019.
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The group's storage solution is especially suitable in places like Switzerland, where solar power is abundant in the summer, and scarce in the winter. Surplus solar power is used to split water to produce hydrogen in the summer; it's then streamed into stainless steel reactors filled with iron ore at 752 °F (400 °C).
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