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Tribal company and Oregon battery startup create unique partnership in pursuit of clean energy

GeekWire

Puyallup Tribe of Indians Photo / Hailey Palmer) A startup developing long-duration batteries is teaming up with a Pacific Northwest tribe to build innovative energy storage devices. “We need energy storage at grid scale. Puyallup Tribal Enterprises has signed an exclusive manufacturing deal with Portland, Ore.-based

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How to reduce backup costs with energy-smart storage

Data Center Knowledge

With such a big boom in data and storage - learn some best practices around controlling the data, making it much more resilient, and deploying it on disks capable of good energy utilization and high-capacity. Read More.

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Battery startup Joule Case lands $500K after making key pivot due to the pandemic

GeekWire

Joule Case , an Idaho-based battery tech startup producing stackable energy storage units, landed more than $500,000 in funding as part of convertible notes. Now the startup is focused on residential and backup-power customers. Joule Case Photo). The batteries can replace polluting, noisy gas generators.

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Involta: On a mission to transform the world through technology

CIO Business Intelligence

“When Involta was founded in 2007, sustainability wasn’t a top-of-mind issue for the industry, but our founders understood its importance and continually made everyday improvements that promoted energy efficiency and reduced our carbon emissions,” says Kremer. That is why Kremer says Involta joined VMware’s Zero Carbon Committed initiative.

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Telefonica is working to help enterprises decarbonize their operations

CIO Business Intelligence

More than half of the company’s portfolio has also achieved Telefónica’s Eco Smart Seal verified by ,AENOR, a designation that enables customers to quickly identify solutions and services that deliver energy savings, reduce water consumption, lower CO2 emissions and extend the useful life of hardware to promote a circular economy.

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Ecobee acquired by generator company Generac for $770 million

The Verge

Generac, based in Waukesha, Wisconsin, was founded in 1959 and makes backup residential and commercial power generators — the New York Times recently estimated Generac accounted for 75 percent of home generator sales in the US. Last month, the company opened a new plant in Trenton, South Carolina.

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Updating an Apple Watch Series 3 is a nightmare in 2021

The Verge

But the non-cellular Apple Watch Series 3 has a tiny 8GB of internal storage, a fair chunk of which is taken up by the operating system and other critical software. Set up the Apple Watch again and restore from backup. Realize you weren’t supposed to restore from your backup yet. Unpair and wipe the Apple Watch a third time.

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