by Denise Wall
HELSINKI
Cheap Nike Air Max 1 , July 22 (Xinhua) -- Finland has been a straggler in the race to exploit renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power. But a new research project is looking to place the small Nordic nation well ahead of the pack in terms of developing storage systems for these clean energy sources.
An ambitious 7 million-euro (9.4 million U.S. dollars) NEO-CARBON ENERGY project is being led by the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and involves collaborators from the Lappeenranta University of Technology and the University of Turku's Finland Futures Research Centre.
"Finland may not be the largest producer of wind turbines or solar panels but we have a chance to take the lead in the development of storage systems for these renewables. The storage, the markets and the software have not yet been developed. This is our chance to break new ground," said the program's principal scientist Pasi Vainikka.
