A giant energy-storage project in South Dakota will soon turn cheap wind energy into clean industrial steam for a neighboring biofuels facility.

The startup Antora Energy said it recently began booting up a 5-gigawatt-hour thermal energy storage system at Poet​’s ethanol-production plant near Big Stone City, close to the Minnesota border. With a fleet of more than 200 batteries, Antora’s project is expected to become the largest of its kind worldwide when it’s fully operating later this year.

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