Category: Member News

Source: Janice Podsada, Herald Net, September 19, 2018. The Snohomish County Public Utility District has chosen a finalist from within to run the utility.  Until Tuesday, (CleanTech Alliance Board Member) John Haarlow was merely known as Candidate D, one of four unnamed finalists. The three-member PUD commission offered him a contract Tuesday that pays a base salary […]

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Better STEM education and healthier water quality are the goals of a Boeing-sponsored stormwater curriculum designed to reach fourth-graders in Seattle Public Schools. Boeing is partnering with IslandWood to help teachers nurture a new generation of clean-water enthusiasts with engineering lessons that examine the causes of, and remedies to, the region’s stormwater issue, which in […]

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The first 777X off the production line has rolled out of the Boeing Everett factory. Referred to as the static airplane, the first 777X airplane is destined for a nearby building where it will be prepared for nearly year-long testing that begins in late 2018. Read more here.

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Source:  Marine Log, September 11, 2018. WindSim AS, the leading provider and pioneer of CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) based Wind Farm Design Tools (WFDT) utilized for the design of wind farms both onshore and offshore is opening a new office in Idaho Falls, ID, continuing the path to commercialization of the WindSim Power Line-Optimization Solution, […]

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Source: James Urton, Columns, August 30, 2018. Six months after the hurricanes and five months before power was restored, UW volunteers worked with community organizers to install solar panels on rooftops in a remote part of Puerto Rico, bringing power to those who needed it most. In the light of a March sunset, an SUV […]

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Source: Taylor Soper, Geekwire From winning the University of Washington Business Plan Competition to raising investment dollars, it’s been a busy past year-and-a-half for Membrion. The Seattle startup today announced a $1 million seed investment round from E8 and the E8 Fund; Bellingham Angel Investors; and individual angels. It also recently received a $748,000 grant from the […]

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Source:  Brian Wang, The Next Big Future, September 6, 2018.  Molten salt nuclear reactor developer Terrestrial Energy has partnered with Southern Company and several U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories (including Idaho National Laboratory) to develop a more efficient and cleaner method for producing hydrogen using nuclear heat and power. The two-year research and development […]

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Source:  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, August 23, 1018 The U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued its annual report on distributed wind capacity that shows larger installations of distributed wind power almost doubled in 2017. Distributed wind power is very localized, meaning that the power is generated near where it will be used, instead […]

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Source:  KGMI NewTalk, September 5, 2018. Puget Sound Energy was inundated with proposals after announcing they wanted to bring in renewable energy resources to make up for the closure of its units at their coal power plant in Montana. The company issued a request for project proposals in June and announced Tuesday they have started to […]

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