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Snohomish County Public Utility District GM/CEO John Haarlow announced the hiring of two Assistant General Managers . Guy Payne was named Assistant General Manager of Distribution & Engineering Services (D&ES) and Jessica Matlock was named Assistant General Manager of Customer & Energy Services and External Affairs.

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Gov. Jay Inslee was joined today by Democratic legislators and climate action supporters to unveil a plan that would launch a dramatic reduction of Washington state’s greenhouse gas emissions over the next 15 years.

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On December 12,  Ashish Kumar will speak with us about disruptive green technologies in the transportation industry, especially air travel. Part of the CleanTech Breakfast Series.

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Winners include a plant-based detergent, a process that utilizes excess whey from artisan cheese producers to make vodka, a micro-hydro energy system, and a technology that enables lower cost hydrogen for fuel cells MEDIA CONTACT: Gregg Kleiner, 541.740.9654, kleinerg@comcast.net SOURCES: David Kenney, VertueLab, 503.780.8736, david.kenney@vertuelab.org; Tom Ranken, CleanTech Alliance, 206.389.8655, tom@cleantechalliance.org SEATTLE and PORTLAND, Ore. […]

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                      Avista Utilities, Snohomish PUD and Puget Sound Energy have been awarded $14.3 million in matching grants from the state’s new Clean Energy Fund to lead energy storage projects with ties to federally funded research at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Gov. Jay Inslee […]

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Governor Christine Todd Whitman spoke to WCTA members and others at an event co-sponsored by the Washington Clean Technology Alliance and the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. Photos below are from that event. By John Stang, Crosscut Could our state build reactors again more than 30 years after it suffered through the plagued construction of Washington […]

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We would like to welcome Clean Tech Open semifinalist, Helion Energy to the Washington Clean Technology Alliance. Helion Energy, based out of Redmond, WA, is a startup company seeking to build a practical nuclear fusion system for commercial utility. For some time now, an ideal future fueled by unlimited, affordable energy has been just a few […]

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Renewable energy becoming more cost-competitive with fossil fuels is not news – as technology improves and more clean power generation comes online, electricity without emissions gets cheaper.  One study shows just how much cheaper it’s become. According to Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis, released by global financial advisor and asset manager firm Lazard Freres […]

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Biomethane, a startup founded by Western Washington University graduate Kathlyn Kinney and Vehicle Research Institute director Eric Leonhardt, works with farmers to create carbon-negative fuel from dairy waste in Lynden, WA. Biodigesters have experienced limited payback thus far by selling electricity to the grid. Depending on local utility rates, biomethane sold at $3/gallon equivalent has […]

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Returning for its fourth year, the Washington Future Energy Conference has become the state’s “must-attend” clean energy event. Presented by Northwest Environmental Business Council (NEBC) and the Washington State Department of Commerce, this unique conference provides an unmatched forum for learning, networking, and business development – bringing together those engaged or interested in the new […]

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