Oregon startup Canopii is tackling the food supply system by launching automated, tennis court-sized greenhouse franchises that use robots to grow 40,000 pounds of greens a year. Read More
The former civilian Navy engineer turned airline executive discusses the physics gap facing electric aviation, the regional push for sustainable fuel, and why customer feedback still moves needles inside major corporations. Read More
Seattle EV startup Electric Era is launching the CoPower Platform to bypass utility delays and provide rapid battery storage for power-hungry data centers. Read More
Beyond massive curtains inside its Everett, Wash., R&D facility, Helion is betting that a downsized testbed can answer key technology questions as the company races to meet deadlines. Read More
The same AI boom that is minting record profits for Microsoft is now threatening to derail its climate leadership as it looks to weaken its ambitious clean energy goals. Read More
With a fresh $40 million investment and plans for a massive Texas gigafactory, Moment Energy is turning the end-of-life for EV batteries into a 30-year infrastructure play. Read More
By combining massive floating power generators with onsite AI hardware, Panthalassa turns the ocean into a self-sustaining computing powerhouse — all without needing a single mile of underwater power cables. Read More
TerraPower is officially moving dirt on its facility in Wyoming, making it the first company in the U.S. to break ground on a next-generation nuclear plant. Read More
Before he was trying to bottle the sun in Everett, Wash., David Kirtley was building rockets. Now, he’s adapting those space-based technologies in the race for fusion energy. Read More
Wastewater treatment startup Sedron Technologies – a company that once served Bill Gates a glass of water purified from sewage – is being acquired by Ara Partners. The firm is investing up to $500 million in Sedron to facilitate the deployment of its sewage and manure cleaning technologies. Read More
Forget charging your laptop — fusion startup Avalanche Energy is part of a team developing a roughly 10-pound nuclear battery designed to provide continuous power for months. Read More
Founded by former AWS energy leaders, British Columbia-based Soma Energy emerged from stealth with $7 million and tech to optimize the power grid for data centers and utilities. Read More
University of Washington’s CoMotion Labs selects its second climate tech cohort. Meet the eight startups tackling EV adoption, biochar and sustainable packaging. Read More
The Sustainable Innovation Award finalists this year are energy companies Helion, OCOChem and TerraPower; fashion recycler Ravel; and agtech startup IUNU. Read More
Amazon has purchased 1,300 acres in Boardman, Ore., for a potential $12 billion “exascale” data center campus capable of housing up to 20 buildings, the Oregonian reports. Read More
Edo spent five years building tech to turn commercial buildings into virtual power plants, and with the grid buckling under data center demand and extreme weather, utilities and building operators are taking notice. Read More
Meet Katherine Sizov, a former budding neuroscientist who ditched the lab, cornered a grocery employee about peaches, and built a $22 million startup called Strella that’s revolutionizing how food gets from farm to shelf. Read More
The Seattle-area fusion startup Helion Energy is negotiating a deal to supply OpenAI with a staggering 5 gigawatts of power by 2030 — if its technology works. Read More
Carbon Robotics names a CFO; Nordstrom gets a VP of AI; and a Microsoft gaming GM goes to Netflix while one of its longtime legal leaders retires. Read More
Phaidra, a startup using artificial intelligence to make data center operations more energy efficient, this week announced key collaborations with Nvidia, CoreWeave and Applied Digital. Read More
TerraPower employees questioned CEO Chris Levesque about connections between sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and company board leaders Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold, according to The Seattle Times. Read More
At the start of next year, Washington state shoppers will for the first time be able to visit showrooms for Rivian and Lucid Motors, take a test drive and buy an EV. Read More
Homeostasis is building a business at the intersection of climate policy, trade wars and the global race for battery materials with its graphite production tech. Read More
Five contractors are suing the Seattle-area clean energy startup for more than $363,458, alleging unpaid invoices when the company suddenly slowed operations late last year. Read More
TerraPower recently signed a deal with Meta to build up to eight advanced reactors in the U.S. with the first two coming online as soon as 2032. Read More
Washington lawmakers are racing to pass legislation to let Rivian and Lucid sell their EVs directly to consumers following Rivian’s threat to put the issue on the ballot. Read More
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