June 26, 2013
Coalition for Green Capital Praises President's Climate Progarm
Ken Berlin, the Executive Vice President of the Coalition for Green Capital, released the following statement yesterday on behalf of the Energy and Environment Team (EE) praising President Obama’s new national climate program.  The Energy & Environment Team (EE), a group of national, state and local energy and climate leaders, praised President Obama’s bold commitment […]

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June 13, 2013
Seattle Trying Innovative Financing Model for Building Efficiency
Seattle City Light and the Bullitt Foundation are trying to create a new business model for financing deep energy efficiency improvements. They are working to create a contract that would quantify energy savings relative to standard commercial buildings and pay for them as utility energy purchases.  A pilot project to begin later this year will focus […]

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April 26, 2013
Olympia Legislative Report, April 26, 2013
Washington Clean Tech Alliance Prepared by:  Boswell Consulting We have reached the end of regular session and it is clear that we are headed into a special session.  At this point, we are not sure when the special session will be called, but rumors indicate that there might be some kind of a break between the […]

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April 24, 2013
Geothermal Law Changes Approved by Legislature
On April 24, 2013, the Washington State Legislature passed a bill modifying the state’s geothermal law. The bill (SSB 5369) was sponsored by Senator Adam Kline of Seattle and passed the legislature with the support of the two state agencies principally charged with overseeing geothermal development, as well private sector stakeholders including AltaRock Energy and […]

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April 22, 2013
Olympia Legislative Report, April 19, 2013
Washington Clean Technology Alliance Prepared by:  Boswell Consulting April 28th, the end of regular session, is rapidly drawing near. This Wednesday was opposite house cutoff, meaning that bills had to have passed out of the opposite house of origin to still be remain alive. At this point, the House and Senate have both released their […]

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April 16, 2013
State Support Needed for WWU Degrees that Would Fuel High-Tech Jobs
By JEFF MORRIS — COURTESY TO THE BELLINGHAM HERALD We are very fortunate here in the 40th Legislative District to be home to a tremendous higher education institution in the form of Western Washington University. It is an economic driver and a source of accessible, high-quality college education for Bellingham, the surrounding area and the […]

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April 12, 2013
Olympia Legislative Report, April 12, 2013
Washington Clean Tech Alliance Prepared by:  Boswell Consulting The House put out its version of the budget, but unfortunately, there was no funding within either the House or Senate Capital budget for any of Governor Inslee’s clean technology fund proposal.  The House also proposed changes to the R&D: Modifying the tax credit for high tech R&D […]

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April 11, 2013
Olympia Legislative Report, April 5, 2013
Washington Clean Technology Alliance Prepared by:  Boswell Consulting Policy cutoff was on Wednesday and the Senate Majority Coalition caucus presented their proposal for the state budget.  Unlike the Governor’s proposal, they do not include any new tax increases nor do they extend the temporary taxes on services and beer like the Governor proposed.  They do include […]

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March 28, 2013
Governor Proposes New Investments in Cleantech
Governor Jay Inslee has called for over $100 million in new cleantech-related investments.  The Governor released his Working Washington:  Budget Priorities 2013-15 on Thursday, March 28, 2013.  He says that “Our number one priority is revitalizing Washington’s economy and building a 21st century workforce.” To do that , Governor Inslee is proposing increases in the […]

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