Will you one day be driving a seaweed-powered SUV? If researchers at Bio Architecture Lab have their way, it may actually become a reality. The University of Washington spinout was featured… Read More
Scope 5 has raised an undisclosed amount of angel financing as it looks for wider adoption of software to help organizations better manage their energy costs and sustainability programs. The Seattle… Read More
To make beer, you need water. A lot of hot water. Historically, brewers have used natural gas, electricity or other methods to boil water in their massive brewing tanks. But… Read More
EnergySavvy is marching into the Bay Area, inking a deal with the City of San Francisco to help homeowners reduce energy costs through specialized online home audits. The program will… Read More
Charlie Ellis, an 11-year veteran of Microsoft who worked on the Excel and SharePoint teams, has joined three-year-old Seattle startup EnergySavvy. Ellis tells GeekWire that he was ready to leave… Read More
Quincy, Washington — an agricultural town near the Columbia River in central Washington — continues to attract technology companies in search of cheap power for massive data centers. The latest… Read More
Technology giants such as Intel, Google and Cisco have found value in bankrolling small startup companies that help meet their corporate missions. Now, the athletic apparel and sneaker giant Nike… Read More
Seattle’s biofuels industry took a big hit a few years ago when Imperium Renewables canceled its IPO, laid off staff and lost key contracts. But the biofuels industry (including Imperium)… Read More
Rob Friedman has been named the new director of University of Washington Tacoma’s Institute of Technology. The New Yorker — who arrives at the organization from the New Jersey Institute of Technology — replaces… Read More
A consortium led by LanzaTech, and consisting of Imperium Renewables, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and The Boeing Co., will receive up to $4 million to study new methods of converting… Read More
Remember the story of Imperium Renewables? The Seattle company once held so much promise for the region’s clean tech industry, raising tens of millions of dollars, attracting politicians to its… Read More
•Mike McGinn is going electric. The Seattle Mayor today announced that the city has added five new Nissan Leaf electric vehicles, with a goal of having 35 of the vehicles… Read More
One of the challenges with solar power in Seattle — in addition to the abundance of gray skies — is that many people live in apartments and condos where they… Read More
An environmental engineering professor at Columbia University has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a new sanitation facility that could convert human… Read More
Optimum Energy, whose software is used to reduce energy consumption in buildings, has raised $5 million in new financing. Total funding in the Seattle company now stands at $19 million.… Read More
Driving through Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood yesterday, I passed by the Propel biodiesel fueling station. I was struck by two things: The high-cost of the fuel, and the fact… Read More
From healthy French fries to to online travel planning services to urban grocery stores in converted shipping containers, this year’s University of Washington business plan competition had a little bit… Read More
A group of more than 40 regional companies, government entities and educational institutions have come together to explore the possibilities of creating an aviation biofuels industry in the Pacific Northwest.… Read More
The Seattle Green Festival is taking place this weekend at the Qwest Event Center, featuring everyone from Rep. Dennis Kucinich talking about “reconnecting with the natural world” to programs about… Read More
Calico Energy has developed technologies to help residential and business customers reduce energy costs, a proposition that’s winning the Bellevue company fans with venture capitalists. The company has landed a $2.5… Read More
The way the rains have been hammering Seattle over the past few months, I am not sure if this technology will actually prove beneficial or not. But Qwest Field’s Event… Read More
What is it with Seattle area billionaires and their love of nuclear power? Earlier this week, Microsoft co-founder touted the benefits of nuclear energy in a talk in New York,… Read More
Twenty one entrepreneurs in the areas of clean tech, green IT, energy efficiency and more competed at the ZINO Society’s 5th Annual ZINO Green Investment Forum this week. But there… Read More
The future of urban dwellings may be making its debut in a SoDo warehouse today. The Seattle architecture firm of CollinsWoerman is showing off a prefabricated component-based concrete and steel… Read More
Mayor Mike McGinn today kicked off his support of the Community Power Works program, an effort to create “green jobs” and make residences and businesses in the Seattle area more energy-efficient.… Read More
The Pacific Northwest has a solid slate of clean tech companies — from fuel cell maker ReliOn which just scored $6 million in funding to turbine maker Hydrovolts. But there’s… Read More
Microsoft unveiled the Hohm service in order to help home owners get a better sense of their energy consumption. But nearly two years after the launch, the concept appears to be… Read More
Calico Energy Services, a Bellevue software company whose technologies are used to help residential and business customers reduce energy costs, has secured an undisclosed investment from Point B Capital. Calico,… Read More
Fuel cell maker ReliOn has scored an additional $6 million in financing from existing investors, money that will be used to expand sales and marketing efforts in the U.S. and… Read More
Hydrovolts, a Seattle startup that’s developing turbines to generate clean power from canals and other waterways, has won the Water-Energy Nexus Prize. Handed out last night in San Francisco as… Read More
