Azores Island a test-bed for German energy experiment

Published: 18 April 2011 y., Monday

A German company is testing a giant battery which it hopes will be able to store enough solar and wind energy to supply an entire community. The trial is taking place on Portugal's Azores island of Graciosa.

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