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Cleantech has an enshittification problem

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EVs won't save the planet. Ultimately, the material bill for billions of individual vehicles and the unavoidable geometry of more cars-more traffic-more roads-greater distances-more cars dictate that the future of our cities and planet requires public transit – lots of it.

But no matter how much public transit we install, there's always going to be some personal vehicles on the road, and not just bikes, ebikes and scooters. Between deliveries, accessibility, and stubbornly low-density regions, there's going to be a lot of cars, vans and trucks on the road for the foreseeable future, and these should be electric.

Beyond that irreducible minimum of personal vehicles, there's the fact that individuals can't install their own public transit system; in places that lack the political will or means to create working transit, EVs are a way for people to significantly reduce their personal emissions.

In policy circles, EV adoption is treated as a logistical and financial issue, so governments have focused on making EVs affordable and increasing the density of charging stations. As an EV owner, I can affirm that affordability and logistics were important concerns when we were shopping for a car.

But there's a third EV problem that is almost entirely off policy radar: enshittification.

An EV is a rolling computer in a fancy case with a squishy person inside of it. While this can sound scary, there are lots of cool implications for this. For example, your EV could download your local power company's tariff schedule and preferentially charge itself when the rates are lowest; they could also coordinate with the utility to reduce charging when loads are peaking. You can start them with your phone. Your repair technician can run extensive remote diagnostics on them and help you solve many problems from the road. New features can be delivered over the air.

That's just for starters, but there's so much more in the future. After all, the signal virtue of a digital computer is its flexibility. The only computer we know how to make is the Turing complete, universal, Von Neumann machine, which can run every valid program. If a feature is computationally tractable – from automated parallel parking to advanced collision prevention – it can run on a car.

The problem is that this digital flexibility presents a moral hazard to EV manufacturers. EVs are designed to make any kind of unauthorized, owner-selected modification into an IP rights violation ("IP" in this case is "any law that lets me control the conduct of my customers or competitors"):

https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/

EVs are also designed so that the manufacturer can unilaterally exert control over them or alter their operation. EVs – even more than conventional vehicles – are designed to be remotely killswitched in order to help manufacturers and dealers pressure people into paying their car notes on time:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon

Manufacturers can reach into your car and change how much of your battery you can access:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/#demon-haunted-world

They can lock your car and have it send its location to a repo man, then greet him by blinking its lights, honking its horn, and pulling out of its parking space:

https://tiremeetsroad.com/2021/03/18/tesla-allegedly-remotely-unlocks-model-3-owners-car-uses-smart-summon-to-help-repo-agent/

And of course, they can detect when you've asked independent mechanic to service your car and then punish you by degrading its functionality:

https://www.repairerdrivennews.com/2024/06/26/two-of-eight-claims-in-tesla-anti-trust-lawsuit-will-move-forward/

This is "twiddling" – unilaterally and irreversibly altering the functionality of a product or service, secure in the knowledge that IP law will prevent anyone from twiddling back by restoring the gadget to a preferred configuration:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twiddler/

The thing is, for an EV, twiddling is the best case scenario. As bad as it is for the company that made your EV to change how it works whenever they feel like picking your pocket, that's infinitely preferable to the manufacturer going bankrupt and bricking your car.

That's what just happened to owners of Fisker EVs, cars that cost $40-70k. Cars are long-term purchases. An EV should last 12-20 years, or even longer if you pay to swap the battery pack. Fisker was founded in 2016 and shipped its first Ocean SUV in 2023. The company is now bankrupt:

https://insideevs.com/news/723669/fisker-inc-bankruptcy-chapter-11-official/

Fisker called its vehicles "software-based cars" and they weren't kidding. Without continuous software updates and server access, those Fisker Ocean SUVs are turning into bricks. What's more, the company designed the car from the ground up to make any kind of independent service and support into a felony, by wrapping the whole thing in overlapping layers of IP. That means that no one can step in with a module that jailbreaks the Fisker and drops in an alternative firmware that will keep the fleet rolling.

This is the third EV risk – not just finance, not just charger infrastructure, but the possibility that any whizzy, cool new EV company will go bust and brick your $70k cleantech investment, irreversibly transforming your car into 5,500 lb worth of e-waste.

This confers a huge advantage onto the big automakers like VW, Kia, Ford, etc. Tesla gets a pass, too, because it achieved critical mass before people started to wise up to the risk of twiddling and bricking. If you're making a serious investment in a product you expect to use for 20 years, are you really gonna buy it from a two-year old startup with six months' capital in the bank?

The incumbency advantage here means that the big automakers won't have any reason to sink a lot of money into R&D, because they won't have to worry about hungry startups with cool new ideas eating their lunches. They can maintain the cozy cartel that has seen cars stagnate for decades, with the majority of "innovation" taking the form of shitty, extractive and ill-starred ideas like touchscreen controls and an accelerator pedal that you have to rent by the month:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/23/23474969/mercedes-car-subscription-faster-acceleration-feature-price

Put that way, it's clear that this isn't an EV problem, it's a cleantech problem. Cleantech has all the problems of EVs: it requires a large capital expenditure, it will be "smart," and it is expected to last for decades. That's rooftop solar, heat-pumps, smart thermostat sensor arrays, and home storage batteries.

And just as with EVs, policymakers have focused on infrastructure and affordability without paying any attention to the enshittification risks. Your rooftop solar will likely be controlled via a Solaredge box – a terrible technology that stops working if it can't reach the internet for a protracted period (that's right, your home solar stops working if the grid fails!).

I found this out the hard way during the covid lockdowns, when Solaredge terminated its 3G cellular contract and notified me that I would have to replace the modem in my system or it would stop working. This was at the height of the supply-chain crisis and there was a long waiting list for any replacement modems, with wifi cards (that used your home internet rather than a cellular connection) completely sold out for most of a year.

There are good reasons to connect rooftop solar arrays to the internet – it's not just so that Solaredge can enshittify my service. Solar arrays that coordinate with the grid can make it much easier and safer to manage a grid that was designed for centralized power production and is being retrofitted for distributed generation, one roof at a time.

But when the imperatives of extraction and efficiency go to war, extraction always wins. After all, the Solaredge system is already in place and solar installers are largely ignorant of, and indifferent to, the reasons that a homeowner might want to directly control and monitor their system via local controls that don't roundtrip through the cloud.

Somewhere in the hindbrain of any prospective solar purchaser is the experience with bricked and enshittified "smart" gadgets, and the knowledge that anything they buy from a cool startup with lots of great ideas for improving production, monitoring, and/or costs poses the risk of having your 20 year investment bricked after just a few years – and, thanks to the extractive imperative, no one will be able to step in and restore your ex-solar array to good working order.

I make the majority of my living from books, which means that my pay is very "lumpy" – I get large sums when I publish a book and very little in between. For many years, I've used these payments to make big purchases, rather than financing them over long periods where I can't predict my income. We've used my book payments to put in solar, then an induction stove, then a battery. We used one to buy out the lease on our EV. And just a month ago, we used the money from my upcoming Enshittification book to put in a heat pump (with enough left over to pay for a pair of long-overdue cataract surgeries, scheduled for the fall).

When we started shopping for heat pumps, it was clear that this was a very exciting sector. First of all, heat pumps are kind of magic, so efficient and effective it's almost surreal. But beyond the basic tech – which has been around since the late 1940s – there is a vast ferment of cool digital features coming from exciting and innovative startups.

By nature, I'm the kid of person who likes these digital features. I started out as a computer programmer, and while I haven't written production code since the previous millennium, I've been in and around the tech industry for my whole adult life. But when it came time to buy a heat-pump – an investment that I expected to last for 20 years or more – there was no way I was going to buy one of these cool new digitally enhanced pumps, no matter how much the reviewers loved them. Sure, they'd work well, but it's precisely because I'm so knowledgeable about high tech that I could see that they would fail very, very badly.

You may think EVs are bullshit, and they are – though there will always be room for some personal vehicles, and it's better for people in transit deserts to drive EVs than gas-guzzlers. You may think rooftop solar is a dead-end and be all-in on utility scale solar (I think we need both, especially given the grid-disrupting extreme climate events on our horizon). But there's still a wide range of cleantech – induction tops, heat pumps, smart thermostats – that are capital intensive, have a long duty cycle, and have good reasons to be digitized and networked.

Take home storage batteries: your utility can push its rate card to your battery every time they change their prices, and your battery can use that information to decide when to let your house tap into the grid, and when to switch over to powering your home with the solar you've stored up during the day. This is a very old and proven pattern in tech: the old Fidonet BBS network used a version of this, with each BBS timing its calls to other nodes to coincide with the cheapest long-distance rates, so that messages for distant systems could be passed on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet

Cleantech is a very dynamic sector, even if its triumphs are largely unheralded. There's a quiet revolution underway in generation, storage and transmission of renewable power, and a complimentary revolution in power-consumption in vehicles and homes:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/12/s-curve/#anything-that-cant-go-on-forever-eventually-stops

But cleantech is too important to leave to the incumbents, who are addicted to enshittification and planned obsolescence. These giant, financialized firms lack the discipline and culture to make products that have the features – and cost savings – to make them appealing to the very wide range of buyers who must transition as soon as possible, for the sake of the very planet.

It's not enough for our policymakers to focus on financing and infrastructure barriers to cleantech adoption. We also need a policy-level response to enshittification.

Ideally, every cleantech device would be designed so that it was impossible to enshittify – which would also make it impossible to brick:

Based on free software (best), or with source code escrowed with a trustee who must release the code if the company enters administration (distant second-best);

All patents in a royalty-free patent-pool (best); or in a trust that will release them into a royalty-free pool if the company enters administration (distant second-best);

No parts-pairing or other DRM permitted (best); or with parts-pairing utilities available to all parties on a reasonable and non-discriminatory basis (distant second-best);

All diagnostic and error codes in the public domain, with all codes in the clear within the device (best); or with decoding utilities available on demand to all comers on a reasonable and non-discriminatory basis (distant second-best).

There's an obvious business objection to this: it will reduce investment in innovative cleantech because investors will perceive these restrictions as limits on the expected profits of their portfolio companies. It's true: these measures are designed to prevent rent-extraction and other enshittificatory practices by cleantech companies, and to the extent that investors are counting on enshittification rents, this might prevent them from investing.

But that has to be balanced against the way that a general prohibition on enshittificatory practices will inspire consumer confidence in innovative and novel cleantech products, because buyers will know that their investments will be protected over the whole expected lifespan of the product, even if the startup goes bust (nearly every startup goes bust). These measures mean that a company with a cool product will have a much larger customer-base to sell to. Those additional sales more than offset the loss of expected revenue from cheating and screwing your customers by twiddling them to death.

There's also an obvious legal objection to this: creating these policies will require a huge amount of action from Congress and the executive branch, a whole whack of new rules and laws to make them happen, and each will attract court-challenges.

That's also true, though it shouldn't stop us from trying to get legal reforms. As a matter of public policy, it's terrible and fucked up that companies can enshittify the things we buy and leave us with no remedy.

However, we don't have to wait for legal reform to make this work. We can take a shortcut with procurement – the things governments buy with public money. The feds, the states and localities buy a lot of cleantech: for public facilities, for public housing, for public use. Prudent public policy dictates that governments should refuse to buy any tech unless it is designed to be enshittification-resistant.

This is an old and honorable tradition in policymaking. Lincoln insisted that the rifles he bought for the Union Army come with interoperable tooling and ammo, for obvious reasons. No one wants to be the Commander in Chief who shows up on the battlefield and says, "Sorry, boys, war's postponed, our sole supplier decided to stop making ammunition."

By creating a market for enshittification-proof cleantech, governments can ensure that the public always has the option of buying an EV that can't be bricked even if the maker goes bust, a heat-pump whose digital features can be replaced or maintained by a third party of your choosing, a solar controller that coordinates with the grid in ways that serve their owners – not the manufacturers' shareholders.

We're going to have to change a lot to survive the coming years. Sure, there's a lot of scary ways that things can go wrong, but there's plenty about our world that should change, and plenty of ways those changes could be for the better. It's not enough for policymakers to focus on ensuring that we can afford to buy whatever badly thought-through, extractive tech the biggest companies want to foist on us – we also need a focus on making cleantech fit for purpose, truly smart, reliable and resilient.

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https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/26/unplanned-obsolescence/#better-micetraps

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How Can a Solar Design Tool Enhance Your Solar PV Design with AutoCAD Plugins?

What Makes a Solar Design Tool Essential for Effective Solar PV Design?

In the rapidly evolving field of solar energy, selecting the right tools for designing photovoltaic (PV) systems is crucial. A Solar Design Tool helps streamline the design process, allowing for accurate planning and efficient implementation of solar PV systems. This tool integrates various aspects of solar design, ensuring that installations are optimized for performance and cost-effectiveness. But how does it work, and why is it important?

What is Solar PV Design and Why Is It Important?

Solar PV Design refers to the process of planning and configuring photovoltaic systems to maximize efficiency and energy production. This involves considering factors such as solar panel placement, shading, system orientation, and electrical configurations. Effective PV design is essential to ensure that the solar system performs at its peak, providing reliable and sustainable energy. A well-designed system not only enhances performance but also helps in meeting regulatory requirements and optimizing financial returns.

How Does a Solar Design Tool Simplify the PV Design Process?

A Solar Design Tool is software designed to assist engineers and designers in creating detailed and accurate solar PV system layouts. These tools offer several key features:

3D Modeling: Allows users to visualize the solar system in a 3D environment, helping to identify potential issues and optimize panel placement.

Shading Analysis: Evaluates potential shading from surrounding objects, which can impact energy production.

Electrical Design: Helps in designing the electrical layout of the system, including wiring and inverter placement.

Performance Simulation: Predicts the performance of the solar system based on various parameters, including location, weather conditions, and panel specifications.

By integrating these features, a Solar Design Tool helps in creating a comprehensive and optimized solar PV design, reducing the likelihood of errors and improving overall system efficiency.

What Role Does AutoCAD Play in Solar PV Design?

AutoCAD, a widely used software for drafting and design, plays a significant role in the solar PV design process. AutoCAD plugins specifically tailored for solar design can enhance the functionality of the software, making it a powerful tool for solar engineers. These plugins offer various advantages:

Enhanced Design Capabilities: AutoCAD plugins for solar design provide specialized tools and features, such as solar panel layout templates and shading analysis tools.

Integration with Solar Design Tools: Many plugins integrate seamlessly with Solar Design Tools, allowing for more precise and detailed designs.

Customization: Plugins often offer customization options to fit specific project requirements, improving efficiency and accuracy.

Collaboration: Facilitates better collaboration between design teams by providing tools for sharing and reviewing designs.

How Can AutoCAD Plugins and Solar Design Tools Work Together for Better Results?

Integrating AutoCAD plugins with a Solar Design Tool creates a synergistic effect, combining the strengths of both platforms. This integration can lead to several benefits:

Streamlined Workflow: Users can transition smoothly between drafting and design, making the overall process more efficient.

Increased Accuracy: Combining the precision of AutoCAD with the specialized features of Solar Design Tools ensures more accurate and reliable designs.

Enhanced Visualization: The 3D modeling capabilities of AutoCAD plugins, coupled with the performance simulations of Solar Design Tools, offer a comprehensive view of the solar system.

Optimized Performance: The combined use of these tools helps in optimizing the system layout and performance, leading to better energy production and cost savings.

What Are Some Popular AutoCAD Plugins for Solar Design?

Several AutoCAD plugins are available that cater specifically to solar design needs. Some of the popular ones include:

Solar Design Tool by Virto Solar: This plugin integrates with AutoCAD to provide advanced solar design features, including layout optimization and performance simulation. More details can be found at Virto Solar.

PV*SOL: A plugin that offers detailed PV system simulation and performance analysis, integrating seamlessly with AutoCAD.

Solar-Log WEB: Provides real-time monitoring and analysis, complementing the design capabilities of AutoCAD.

How Can You Choose the Right Solar Design Tool and AutoCAD Plugin for Your Needs?

Selecting the right tools involves considering several factors:

Project Requirements: Assess the specific needs of your project, including scale, complexity, and performance goals.

Compatibility: Ensure that the Solar Design Tool and AutoCAD plugin are compatible and can integrate smoothly.

Features and Functionality: Evaluate the features offered by the tools and how they align with your design objectives.

User Experience: Consider the ease of use and support available for the tools.

Conclusion: 

Utilizing a combination of Solar Design Tools and AutoCAD Plugins can significantly enhance the design and implementation of solar PV systems. By leveraging these tools, you can achieve more accurate, efficient, and optimized solar designs, leading to better performance and cost savings. For more information on integrating these tools into your projects, explore the resources available at Virto Solar.

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Drive Business Success with Premium Auto Insurance Leads

In the competitive world of auto insurance, acquiring high-quality leads is crucial for sustained growth and success. Premium auto insurance leads offer a strategic advantage, providing businesses with targeted, motivated prospects. By investing in the best auto insurance leads, companies can optimize their marketing efforts, increase conversion rates, and ultimately boost revenue.

The Importance of Quality Auto Insurance Leads

Understanding the Value of Premium Leads

The auto insurance market is saturated with providers vying for customers' attention. To stand out, businesses need to focus on acquiring premium leads—prospects who are actively seeking auto insurance and are ready to make a purchase decision. These high-intent leads can significantly reduce the time and effort spent on cold calling and chasing uninterested prospects.

The Impact on Conversion Rates

Utilizing the Best Auto Insurance Leads ensures that your sales team spends their time and resources on prospects with a higher likelihood of conversion. This not only improves the efficiency of your sales process but also enhances the overall customer experience, leading to higher satisfaction rates and better retention.

Strategies to Acquire Premium Auto Insurance Leads

Leveraging Advanced Data Analytics

To acquire the best auto insurance leads, businesses must leverage advanced data analytics tools. These tools can analyze vast amounts of data to identify patterns and trends, helping you to target prospects more effectively. By understanding the demographics, behaviors, and preferences of your ideal customers, you can tailor your marketing strategies to attract high-quality leads.

Utilizing Multi-Channel Marketing

Diversifying your marketing efforts across multiple channels can increase your reach and visibility. Utilize digital marketing techniques such as search engine optimization (SEO), pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, social media marketing, and email campaigns. By maintaining a strong presence on various platforms, you can capture the attention of potential customers wherever they are.

Building Strategic Partnerships

Partnering with complementary businesses can also help in acquiring premium auto insurance leads. For instance, collaborating with car dealerships, repair shops, or financial advisors can provide access to a pool of potential customers who are already in need of auto insurance services. These partnerships can create a steady stream of high-quality leads.

Maximizing the Value of Your Leads

Implementing a Robust Lead Management System

To fully capitalize on the best auto insurance leads, it’s essential to have a robust lead management system in place. This system should track and manage leads throughout the sales funnel, ensuring that no opportunity is missed. Automated follow-ups, personalized communication, and detailed analytics can help in nurturing leads and converting them into loyal customers.

Training and Empowering Your Sales Team

A well-trained sales team is crucial for effectively handling premium auto insurance leads. Continuous training programs should focus on improving communication skills, product knowledge, and customer relationship management. Empower your team with the tools and resources they need to succeed, such as CRM software and sales automation tools.

Personalizing the Customer Experience

In today's market, personalization is key to winning over customers. Use the data collected from your leads to offer personalized solutions that meet their specific needs. Tailored quotes, customized policy options, and targeted marketing messages can enhance the customer experience and increase the likelihood of conversion.

Measuring Success and Adjusting Strategies

Analyzing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Regularly analyze KPIs such as conversion rates, cost per lead, and customer acquisition costs to measure the success of your lead generation efforts. These metrics can provide valuable insights into the effectiveness of your strategies and highlight areas for improvement.

Adjusting Your Approach

The auto insurance market is dynamic, and consumer preferences can change rapidly. Stay agile by continuously reviewing and adjusting your lead generation strategies based on the latest market trends and customer feedback. This proactive approach ensures that you remain competitive and continue to attract the best auto insurance leads.

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Find Your Ideal Free Online Solar Project Management Software

In the rapidly evolving solar energy industry, effective project management is crucial to ensuring successful installations, cost efficiency, and timely completion. Solar project management software plays a pivotal role in managing these complex projects by streamlining workflows, improving communication, and providing critical insights. Here’s a comprehensive look at some of the best solar project management software available in 2024.

1. Aurora Solar

Aurora Solar stands out as one of the leading software solutions in the solar industry, offering an all-encompassing platform that covers everything from design to sales and project management. Known for its advanced solar design capabilities, Aurora Solar enables users to create accurate and high-resolution solar layouts with shading analysis and performance simulations.

Key Features:

Advanced Design Tools: Aurora’s design tools allow for precise modeling of solar projects with accurate irradiance and shading analysis.

Project Management: The software includes task management and timeline features, making it easy to track project progress and manage resources.

Proposal Generation: Aurora can generate professional, customizable proposals with detailed financial analysis, helping sales teams close deals faster.

Integration and APIs: It integrates with various other tools and software, enhancing its flexibility and usability in different project scenarios.

Pros:

Robust design and simulation capabilities.

Comprehensive project management features.

Strong customer support and regular updates.

Cons:

Can be expensive for smaller companies.

Requires a learning curve for new users.

2. HelioScope

HelioScope is another powerful software platform renowned for its user-friendly interface and robust design capabilities. It focuses on the early-stage design and engineering aspects of solar projects, allowing users to create detailed system layouts and performance analyses efficiently.

Key Features:

System Design and Performance Modeling: HelioScope allows for easy layout design and quick performance predictions, streamlining the initial planning phase.

Bankable Reports: The software produces detailed, bankable reports that can be used for securing financing and permits.

CAD Compatibility: Its integration with CAD tools simplifies the transition from design to construction documentation.

Pros:

Intuitive interface that reduces design time.

Detailed and accurate performance predictions.

Affordable for small to medium-sized solar businesses.

Cons:

Limited project management features compared to other platforms.

Mainly focused on design and performance modeling.

3. SolarEdge Designer

SolarEdge Designer is a free, cloud-based tool tailored specifically for SolarEdge products but versatile enough for use with other systems. It combines system design, performance simulation, and project management in one platform.

Key Features:

Design and Layout Tools: Provides comprehensive tools for designing solar systems, including shading analysis and energy output predictions.

Project Management: Includes features for task tracking, project timelines, and documentation management.

Cost Estimation: Offers detailed cost and ROI analysis, helping businesses plan their finances effectively.

Pros:

Free to use, which is beneficial for small businesses.

Seamless integration with SolarEdge products.

Easy-to-use interface with robust support.

Cons:

Best suited for SolarEdge systems, limiting its flexibility.

Limited features compared to paid platforms.

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Transforming Solar Energy in Lebanon with Fusion Solar Inverters: Jubaili Bros Leading the Charge

In Lebanon, the pursuit of renewable energy solutions has become increasingly imperative as the country grapples with energy shortages and environmental challenges. At Jubaili Bros, we are committed to pioneering sustainable energy solutions that not only address these pressing issues but also pave the way for a brighter, greener future. Our partnership with Fusion Solar Inverters represents a significant step forward in our mission to revolutionize the solar landscape in Lebanon and beyond.

At Jubaili Bros, we are committed to driving innovation and sustainability in the solar energy sector. Our partnership with Fusion Solar represents a shared vision to push the boundaries of what is possible in renewable energy technology. Together, we are developing innovative solutions that leverage the latest advancements in solar inverters to maximize energy efficiency, minimize environmental impact, and accelerate the adoption of solar power in Lebanon and beyond.

As Lebanon seeks to embrace renewable energy and chart a sustainable path forward, Jubaili Bros is proud to be at the forefront of this transformative journey. Our partnership with Fusion Solar Inverters exemplifies our unwavering commitment to driving innovation, sustainability, and prosperity in the solar energy sector. Together, we are empowering homes, businesses, and communities across Lebanon to harness the power of the sun and build a cleaner, greener future for generations to come.

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I wasn’t counting on taking pictures of a Totality and an Aurora Borealis just a month apart 🙀

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[synergytop]

Big news! We're excited to announce that SynergyTop partnered with a Solar Energy Market Platform to develop an industry-specific software solution for them! Check out the complete news story about the partnership here: https://bit.ly/3JM0s1f