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Landmark Affordable Housing Energy Resiliency Project
SimpliPhi helps power up landmark ‘justice housing meets environmental justice’ project in Washington, DC.
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Veterans Empowered to Defend Native American Land
In 2016, 2,000 U.S. military veterans quickly banded together on site to protect the Native Americans who were protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline because it threatened clean water access rights and sacred burial grounds. Shortly thereafter, these veterans, known as the Veterans for Standing Rock, formed the nonprofit Veteran Service Corps (“VSC”) to continue their efforts to protect Native American rights, advance environmental conservation, and support communities that have suffered social and economic injustices.
To bolster their mission, VSC commissioned...
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Australian Gold Mine Reduces Costs w/SimpliPhi Batteries
As global demand for minerals grows, the mining sector’s energy consumption is anticipated to increase 36% by 2035, according to a recent report by the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI). Energy accounts for an estimated 15% of mining costs already, and can often rise to 40% in metal mines, according to the CCSI report. Additionally, where fossil fuels are employed, energy costs can be quite volatile and thereby unpredictable for mining companies.
With these challenges in mind, Dacian Gold,...
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Community Microgrid in Peru Improves Health, Education & Incomes
An estimated 22 million people in Latin America do not have access to electricity, including ~2 million in Peru alone. Amongst rural Peruvian households without electricity, 80% use kerosene lamps for lighting. Household kerosene use is tied to impaired lung function, asthma, cancer, and increased susceptibility to infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, according to the National Institutes of Health. Beyond detrimental health impacts, lack of electricity is also linked to lower incomes and education.
Families in the remote mountain community...
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SimpliPhi Empowers Virginia Tech to Win First Place in Middle East Solar Home Building Competition
In order to accelerate more efficient, sustainable home design & building, the U.S. Department of Energy created the Solar Decathlon Middle East (SDME) in 2018 in conjunction with the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy, and the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA). SDME is an annual international competition in which universities from all over the world meet to design, build and operate grid-connected, solar+storage powered houses.
In 2019, SDME took place in Dubai. Beyond the challenge of building a home...
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SimpliPhi Powers Dartmouth Even During the Coldest Winter Months
After Dartmouth College installed solar panels at a remote campus site built for research and instruction, its administrators grew tired of having to rely heavily on its noisy generator in the evening, particularly during the coldest winter months. On cloudy days, when less solar power was generated, and when research extended into the evening when solar power was no longer available, faculty and students had to continually revert to using their generator. They longed for a silent, maintenance free,...
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SimpliPhi Powers 8 Puerto Rican Hospitals
After Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico and caused the second largest blackout in world history, hospitals across the island faced the stark reality that they were unprepared to power their critical equipment for extended periods of time during a prolonged power outage. Most turned to their only backup option: costly, loud, polluting generators that required constant refueling, which often involved waiting in long lines for gas or diesel fuel. In addition, the generators were unable supply enough energy to...
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Easy, Drop-in Lead Acid Replacement in Canada
Longtime off-grid homeowners in the Yukon upgrade to efficient, long-lasting PHI batteries from high maintenance, heavy, lower capacity lead acid batteries.
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Tiny Home Owners Upgrade with Modular SimpliPhi Batteries
Ty Tabata lives off-grid in a 30’ x 8.5’ tiny house on wheels built in just seven days during Incredible Tiny Homes’ second “Build Your Own Home Workshop.”
Though the water heater and cooking range are run on propane, the tiny home’s 10v 9,000 btu ductless mini split AC, apartment-sized refrigerator, 3 LED TV’s, wireless router, small microwave, bathroom exhaust fan in bathroom and living space ceiling fan are powered by solar+energy storage.
When the tiny home was first constructed, storage...
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Retiree Prepares for Outages While Saving Money Year-Round
More than five months after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, the Oquendo home in rural Juncos, Puerto Rico remained without power. With a large extended family living in the household, including several seniors and young children, family members from outside of Puerto Rico wanted to make sure that their loved ones would never be without power again.
They turned to Energy Solutions Puerto Rico, UMA Solar and SimpliPhi power to design a grid-tied solar+storage system to provide both net metering...
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