February 24, 2020
U.S. Department of Energy Loan Programs Update
Source: U.S. Department of Energy Loan Program Update, February 2020. Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) U.S. Department of Energy Loan Programs Office (LPO) Senior Investment Officer Khalid Abedin spoke at the opening event for the U.S. Energy Association’s CCUS Road Show on January 28, 2020, in Washington, DC.  LPO staff will be participating at […]

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February 10, 2020
2020 WA Legislative Session Weekly Report 4
February 8, 2020: Week 4 Analysis by CleanTech Alliance lobbyist Brad Boswell The end of week four marked the 27th day out of the sixty for which this short session is scheduled, as well as the first deadline for bills moving through the legislative process. Bills that do not have a fiscal impact and did […]

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February 3, 2020
2020 WA Legislative Session Weekly Report 3
February 1, 2020: Week 3 Analysis by CleanTech Alliance lobbyist Brad Boswell We are now three weeks into the eight week 2020 legislative session and the whirlwind of committee hearings and votes, and intermittent chamber-wide action has yet to slow down. Next Friday, February 7th, is the first official deadline for bills to be passed […]

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January 31, 2020
Geekwire: Battery Innovation Offers ‘Mind-Boggling’ Growth Opportunity as NW Becomes a Major Player
By Lisa Stiffler, Geekwire, January 30, 2020. As ribbons of smoke began curling out of the power outlets on their Joule Case battery stack, Alex Livingston and James Wagoner tried to keep their cool. The cameras were rolling. The entrepreneurs were competing on “All-American Makers,” a reality game show broadcast on the Discovery Channel, hoping to land $250,000 in venture capital. Livingston flushed. […]

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January 29, 2020
Meet CleanTech Alliance Board Member Elen Wetzel, Dorsey & Whitney
Elen’s practice focuses on patent preparation and prosecution, opinions, and counseling of clients across a variety of industries including energy, manufacturing, transportation, electronics, and e-commerce. She works with both large and emerging companies across a wide range of technologies including mechanical, electrical, and software systems, as well as medical devices and consumer products. Elen helps […]

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January 27, 2020
2020 WA Legislative Session Weekly Report 2
January 25, 2020: Week Two Analysis by CleanTech Alliance lobbyist Brad Boswell Week two in Olympia continued week one’s flurry of committee hearings and steady flow of new bills. This is already proving to be a record-breaking year in terms of the sheer amount of legislation introduced, particularly for a short session. These hundreds of […]

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January 22, 2020
2020 WA Legislative Session Weekly Report 1
January 18, 2020: Week One Analysis by CleanTech Alliance lobbyist Brad Boswell Today marks the end of the first week of the 2020 Legislative Session here in Washington. Starting Monday, legislators returned to the capitol campus in Olympia from their home districts to begin this short 60-day session, the second half of the biennial budget […]

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January 16, 2020
Meet CleanTech Alliance Board Member Angela Becker-Dippmann, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Angela Becker-Dippmann became a CleanTech Alliance Board Member in 2020. She rejoined PNNL in April 2019 as a Strategic Advisor in PNNL’s Energy and Environment Directorate. In this cross-cutting role, she evaluates emerging national, regional, and state energy and environmental priorities, policies and programs to ensure EED’s mission strategy and S&T are focused on the most impactful […]

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January 6, 2020
CleanTech Alliance Signs onto CEBN Letter to Support Research, Development & Commercialization
The CleanTech Alliance works with the Washington, DC-based Clean Energy Business Network to further mutual objectives. We were recently asked to sign on to the following letter and have done so. ADDITIONAL SIGNATURES WELCOME! CLICK HERE TO ADD YOUR COMPANY/ORGANIZATION The Honorable Nydia Velázquez (NY-7) Chairwoman House Committee on Small Business 2302 Rayburn House Office […]

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December 20, 2019
Group14 Technologies Raises $18 Million
Source: Green Car Congress, November 25, 2019. Group14 Technologies announced $18 million in new financing from Amperex Technologies Limited (ATL), Showa Denko (SDK), Cabot Corporation, BASF Venture Capital, and OVP Venture Partners. The new funds will be used to scale-up manufacturing of a next-generation silicon-carbon composite anode material and advance into commercial production. Group14 Technologies—a 2016 spin-off […]

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