Tag: Washington

By Tom Rickey, Originally published by PNNL By adjusting water discharges in ways designed to boost salmon productivity, officials at a dam in central Washington were able to more than triple the numbers of juvenile salmon downstream of the dam over a 30-year period, according to a study published Feb. 25 in the Canadian Journal of […]

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By Tom Banse, KPLU Blue Array, a startup company based in Vancouver, Washington is looking to upend the sewage treatment business. There are literally dozens of small Northwest cities struggling to figure out how to add treatment capacity for growth, or simply update aging and failing infrastructure. Blue Array proposes to give interested cities and […]

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WA_Future Energy_2013_Partner_Invitation Featured Keynote Speakers Graham Richard, CEO, Advanced Energy Economy, a national association of businesses and business leaders striving to transform public policy to enable rapid growth of advanced energy businesses. Graham Richard served as mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, from 2000 to 2008, following a 20-year career in business, as principle of Graham […]

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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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Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are testing a device that can harness solar heat to increase a natural-gas power plant’s efficiency 25 percent from the same amount of fuel. The PNNL approach builds on what’s called solar thermal energy production. Instead of relying on photovoltaic cells to directly convert sunlight into energy, solar thermal […]

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