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Marine Veteran Aims to Improve Residential Storage with Startup NeoVolta

GreenTechMedia

Now he's competing to build better home battery systems. Willson's San Diego-based startup NeoVolta emerged when a friend in the solar industry asked for his thoughts on the existing field of home energy storage systems. kilowatts of instantaneous power, also more than the mainstream competitors. Longer lasting.

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After Bold Promise, New Jersey’s Energy Storage Plan Remains a Mystery

GreenTechMedia

New Jersey looked like the promised land for energy storage. Phil Murphy campaigned in 2017 on a clean energy platform that pushed for a 100 percent clean grid by 2050. When Murphy won and took office, he signed sweeping clean energy legislation in May 2018 that turned his goals into law. Who’s the Boss?

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'Significant slowdown': European energy storage growth falls in 2019

Business Green

Total of just 1GWh of energy storage added across Europe last year due to higher competition and lower prices, trade body warns. The downturn was particularly pronounced for large-scale energy storage projects, which are seen as key to expanding the use of intermittent forms of renewable energy such as solar and wind power.

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DEELAT Solar Powered Motion Light Review

Energy Refuge

This review is of the DEELAT solar powered motion light which we had the pleasure of testing recently. This light is useful for home use as a security system to alert a homeowner to motion nearby and is also ideal for pathways, parking lots, and campuses. meters high. At first glance, the light looked sleek and well designed.

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How Ecobee is becoming the smart home company Nest should have been

The Verge: Energy

But that’s not the only clever synergy the smart home company has up its sleeve. The Nest Learning Thermostat may have grabbed all the headlines when it launched in 2011 and kick-started the current home automation trend. While it’s definitely not the first in either category, it plans to be the smartest. Ex-Apple engineers!

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Inside the Office for National Statistics' drive to map the UK's green jobs market

Business Green

And it has been at pains to insist that the move away from polluting energy, products, and services towards cleaner alternatives will avoid the mass unemployment prompted by poorly managed industrial transitions of the recent past. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) definition of a green job includes the world decent," she said. "It

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A tribe in Maine is using hemp to remove ‘forever chemicals’ from the soil

Grist

said, “At the end of the day, the data support phytoremediation as a viable approach and definitely established proof of concept.”. Although some companies have voluntarily decided to phase out the use of PFAS in their products and packaging, the chemicals are already ubiquitous, pervading farms and military sites alike.

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