CleanTech Alliance Awards

FOM Technologies

FOM Technologies develops and manufactures precision slot-die coating equipment that helps leading innovators in electric propulsion technology, sustainable aviation fuel, and silicon battery materials transform new materials into scalable clean technologies. From thin-film batteries and solar cells to sustainable membranes and barrier coatings, FOM’s tools bridge the gap between laboratory research and commercial production—accelerating innovation that drives decarbonization, electrification, and advanced manufacturing. With operations expanding across North America, FOM is proud to empower the next generation of materials breakthroughs with accuracy, repeatability, and a commitment to cleaner, smarter production.

Mast Reforestation

As intensifying wildfires destroy more forestland every year, Mast Reforestation is scaling post-wildfire reforestation in North America. Mast pioneered restorative carbon removal with durable biomass burial to remove carbon from the atmospheric cycle and finance resilient recovery. Mast owns and operates two of the largest commercial wild tree seed and seedling nurseries in the West, 150-year-old Silvaseed and Cal Forest, two crucial hubs in the U.S. forestry supply chain. Mast grows the majority of seedlings for California and manages the majority of seed for landowners across the 11 western states. Since its founding, Mast has restored thousands of acres across California, Montana, and Oregon. Producing an average of 36 million seedlings annually, Mast continues to cultivate and protect the biological legacy of Western conifer forests for future generations. Learn more or invest in reforestation today.

Res-Intel

Res-Intel, based in Portland, Oregon, is a national leader in equitable building decarbonization, delivering advanced analytics and AI-driven software solutions for utilities and local governments. Seeded by a California Energy Commission grant, our Benchmark.AI™ platform now supports all California electric IOUs, achieving 95–98% meter-to-property matching, AI-driven retrofit recommendations, and provides granular energy disaggregation and building energy benchmarking with 1-100 efficiency scores.

In 2023, we characterized ~100,000 commercial properties for a California IOU and are now analyzing ~35,000 industrial sites. Our tools identify disadvantaged communities and income-eligible properties to target multifamily decarbonization, while mass-scale analytics cut benchmarking and high-user targeting costs by up to 100x.

Res-Intel has scaled its Benchmark.AI™ platform across multiple sectors—single-family residential, multifamily, commercial, and industrial—demonstrating broad market adoption and continuous product innovation. We were recently selected by a Washington State agency to assess solar potential at affordable housing properties across the state.

Salish Elements

Salish Elements is an Indigenous-led clean energy project developer headquartered in Tsleil-Waututh territory, advancing regenerative hydrogen (rH2™) solutions to decarbonize energy systems across western Canada.

The company pairs conventional green hydrogen production and applications with heat and resource recovery to support Biocultural Innovation that can include greenhouses,aquaculture, reforestation programs, marine restoration, organic soil production, and other community priorities — creating full-circle economic, environmental, and cultural benefits through what the Salish Elements refers to as Biocultural Energy Utilities or BEUs.

With a mission to build a new energy model that meets dual crises of climate change and energy access, the company sees nation-to-nation and transportation use of regenerative hydrogen fuel as key components to fulfill the vision of an equitable, clean economy.

Avista

Avista Utilities is involved in the production, transmission and distribution of energy. We provide energy services and electricity to 423,000 customers and natural gas to 383,000 customers in a service territory that covers 30,000 square miles in eastern Washington, northern Idaho and parts of southern and eastern Oregon, with a population of 1.7 million. Avista Utilities is an operating division of Avista Corp. (NYSE: AVA). For more information, please visit www.myavista.com. Avista Corp. and the Avista Corp. logo are trademarks of Avista Corporation.

Puget Sound Energy

Puget Sound Energy is Washington state’s largest and oldest utility, supporting approximately 1.24 million electric customers and nearly 900,000 natural gas customers across ten counties. The company is undergoing the most significant transformation in its history as it strives to meet some of the most ambitious clean energy laws in the nation, while delivering on customers’ expectations for safe and reliable energy.

VertueLab

VertueLab is a nonprofit supporting and funding Pacific Northwest entrepreneurs who are developing solutions for the climate crisis. As the first in the country to make direct, program-related investments in cleantech startups, VertueLab works closely with entrepreneurs, funders, and communities to help develop and deploy scalable climate technologies across the region for an equitable and inclusive climate tech economy.