Helion Energy announced a $425 million funding round that will help the Seattle-area fusion company chase the “Holy Grail” of clean energy. The company’s new investors include SoftBank, Lightspeed Venture… Read More
President Joe Biden this week issued one of his last executive orders, addressing the race to build domestic data centers and clean energy plants in order to retain America’s leadership… Read More
Artificial intelligence and the data centers that drive the technology are booming with no end in sight. That’s putting mounting pressure on tech giants to come up with climate friendly… Read More
President-elect Donald Trump is a champion of fossil fuels and calls President Biden’s New-Deal style programs for battling climate change the “greatest scam in history.” So what does a climate-focused… Read More
Washington state — a region once blessed with an overabundance of clean, affordable power thanks to its hydroelectric dams — can no longer make that claim. Energy use is surging… Read More
First Mode, a Seattle-based company that’s concentrating on reducing carbon emissions in mining and other heavy industries, has alerted its employees to a significant round of layoffs that’s expected to… Read More
Amazon’s carbon footprint shrank by 3% last year, marking its second straight year of decline. In its annual sustainability report, the cloud, e-commerce and entertainment giant touted its clean energy… Read More
While the reality of affordable fusion energy is still an atom-smashing twinkle in physicists’ eyes, the state of Washington is moving ahead with plans to support the nascent commercial fusion… Read More
Inside TerraPower’s cavernous 65,000 square-foot laboratory north of Seattle, there’s a suite of stations for experimenting with new materials and cutting-edge methods for generating nuclear power. One area is dominated… Read More
Clean energy projects for Washington groups including public utilities, the Yakama Nation, and others will receive funding from grants announced this week by the U.S. Department of Energy and the… Read More
U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Sen. Maria Cantwell met in Seattle on Friday with West Coast tech executives and leaders from national laboratories to strategize partnerships to more quickly… Read More
NuScale Power, a Portland, Ore.-based nuclear company, is laying off 154 full-time employees, or 28% of its workforce. In November NuScale hit a major setback when it scuttled plans with… Read More
A growing number of organizations as well as the U.S. government are moving beyond commitments to purchase 100% clean energy to power their operations. They’re aiming for carbon-free power 24-hours-a-day,… Read More
Seattle’s LevelTen Energy has raised $10 million to support its platform that facilitates the development of new clean energy projects. In August 2021 the company announced a $35 million Series… Read More
Omnidian, a Seattle company that manages solar power performance and services the panels for commercial and residential installations, announced $25 million in new investment. Omnidian’s software remotely detects performance issues… Read More
Peregrine Hydrogen, a Santa Cruz, Calif., startup developing technology for producing clean hydrogen, raised $7.8 million in seed financing. The company is aiming to manufacture climate friendly hydrogen that is… Read More
Amazon for three years has ranked as the No. 1 corporate purchaser of renewable energy worldwide. As the retail, cloud and entertainment giant strives to reach net zero carbon emissions… Read More
Funding news: The Seattle area’s Zap Energy will receive $5 million from a newly launched federal program supporting the commercial development of fusion power. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Milestone-Based… Read More
Four Pacific Northwest public-private partnerships have won support from the National Science Foundation through a $43 million nationwide program to promote regional technology innovations. The NSF’s Regional Innovation Engines program… Read More
Microsoft and Helion Energy on Wednesday announced a historic agreement that could pave the way to the world’s first fusion power plant. Helion plans to build the commercial facility in… Read More
Myno Carbon‘s leader calls his team “committed climate warriors.” But it wasn’t always that way. “You’ll have to forgive us for this, but we’re ex-oilfield people largely by background,” said… Read More
Slashing carbon emissions requires the rapid deployment of solar, wind and other renewable energy supplies. But the projects often require complicated, lengthy negotiations between clean energy developers and buyers to… Read More
First Mode, the clean-energy company that was recently transformed from a Seattle startup into an Anglo American subsidiary, is getting a boost from Washington state. The Washington State Department of… Read More
Seattle-based First Mode and Anglo American have closed a complicated $1.5 billion transaction that will remake First Mode as a clean-energy company for heavy industry — and shift its headquarters… Read More
Newly released renderings show a building planned for the west campus of the University of Washington in Seattle that will be home to research centers in clean energy, medical science… Read More
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is asking lawmakers to allocate $10 million in funding for Washington State University’s Institute for Northwest Energy Futures. The effort to launch the institute began in… Read More
Seattle-area tech giants Amazon and Microsoft were global leaders in clean energy power purchase agreements made by corporations last year. Amazon held the top spot for the second year in… Read More
For decades, the promise of harnessing the power of fusion on a commercial scale to create vast amounts of carbon-free energy has hovered just out of reach for scientists. At… Read More
Seattle startup LevelTen Energy has raised $35 million in a Series C round led by NGP Energy Capital, with participation from Google and others. The company facilitates the purchase of… Read More
Amazon Web Services is announcing the creation of a 5-week accelerator to support clean technology startups. Applications to the AWS Clean Energy Accelerator are being accepted starting today until June… Read More
