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Sprint | January 16, 2020

Sprint and Direct Energy Renewable Services announced today that all of Sprint's more than 800 Virginia locations will now be served with 100% Renewable energy. This agreement includes Sprint's retail locations, cell phone towers, and Sprint's east coast corporate office in Reston, Virginia. These facilities will use more than 88,000 MWh per year. For Sprint, the effort is part of the recent corporate commitment to be carbon neutral across all of their operations by 2025. As an active corporate ...

SOLAR+STORAGE

Panasonic | November 19, 2021

Panasonic announced the latest innovation in its robust solar energy portfolio of Total Home Energy Solution offerings, the EverVolt 2.0. A result of Panasonic's ongoing commitment to developing advanced solar and energy storage technologies, EverVolt 2.0 offers enhancements for greater customization, and features a convenient modular footprint and weatherproof design. The new EverVolt 2.0 provides continuous power output of 7.6 kW off-grid and 9.6 kW with grid, enough to powe...

SUSTAINABILITY, PRODUCTS

Ecobat | February 21, 2023

On February 20, 2023, Ecobat, a leading battery recycling company, announced that it is building its first North American lithium-ion battery recycling facility, which will mark its third facility overall. Initially generating 10,000 tons approximate of salvaged material yearly, the new facility located in Casa Grande, Arizona, will be expanded to meet the increasing need for lithium-ion battery recycling. Through diagnostics, sorting, shredding, and material separation, Ecobat ...

BlackRock | January 27, 2020

The world’s largest asset manager has a new multibillion-dollar renewable energy fund in the works, and a good chunk of it may go to batteries. Long a major global investor in wind and solar energy, BlackRock has more recently begun buying into energy storage projects — including its acquisition last year of GE’s distributed solar and storage business. Looking out over the next few years, energy storage is one market “where we’ll see the opportunity set expand,” said Martin Torres, managing dire...