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Moonwatt secures $8.3M to dial up solar’s staying power with sodium-ion storage


The drive to decarbonize our economies through electrification and clean energy continues to generate momentum around battery technologies, as storage has

Moonwatt, a clean tech startup founded in September last year in the Netherlands, is working on a battery-based energy storage system that’s co-located with, and optimized for, solar power plants to help them manage this variability. Optimizing just for solar means the startup can fully focus on making design choices that are intended to help plants get the most out of their asset, including when it comes to shrinking the costs of connecting their energy to the grid. She joined TC after a stint reviewing smartphones for CNET UK and, prior to that, more than five years covering business technology for silicon.com (now folded into TechRepublic), where she focused on mobile and wireless, telecoms & networking, and IT skills issues.

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