A New Type of Battery, Made of Concrete

How one company is thinking ‘outside the blocks’ and storing energy in concrete towers

Marco Lüthy
OneZero
Published in
3 min readOct 28, 2021

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Photo of energy storage crane with Alps in background
Energy Vault’s Commercial Demonstration Unit energy storage tower in Castione, Switzerland. Photo: Energy Vault

A couple of hours south of Zürich, Switzerland, in the Canton of Ticino, you’ll find a battery made out of concrete blocks. Energy Vault, the Swiss clean energy firm that built it, is about to go public via a SPAC merger with Novus Capital Corporation II.

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Marco Lüthy
OneZero

Hi there! I’m Marco. I write mostly about software development, sometimes about books I’ve read, and occasionally something else to keep things interesting.