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Coming to Seattle: Picnic shelters with solar panels

OK, you can insert whatever Seattle rain joke that you’d like on this one. But during a week that the… Read More

Meet the 9 startups bankrolled by the Northwest Energy Angels

The Northwest Energy Angels, a 50-person angel investment group, said today that its members invested more than $880,000 in nine clean… Read More

Meet the SolMate: This case charges your iPhone in the sun (and shade)

Does your iPhone battery life get you down? Don’t worry. Two enterprising Seattle geeks believe they’ve solved that ongoing frustration… Read More

OneEnergy Renewables scores cash for carbon offset program

OneEnergy Renewables, a Seattle startup that utilizes funds from its carbon offset and Renewable Energy Certificates program to bankroll new… Read More

Fuel of the future: Seaweed?

Will you one day be driving a seaweed-powered SUV? If researchers at Bio Architecture Lab have their way, it may actually… Read More

Stealthy Scope 5 emerges, plans to make sense out of energy data

Scope 5 has raised an undisclosed amount of angel financing as it looks for wider adoption of software to help organizations… Read More

How a Seattle brewery is using solar technology to make beer

To make beer, you need water. A lot of hot water. Historically, brewers have used natural gas, electricity or other… Read More

San Francisco taps EnergySavvy to help homeowners cut through the fog of energy bills

EnergySavvy is marching into the Bay Area, inking a deal with the City of San Francisco to help homeowners reduce… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft vet joins EnergySavvy; InfoSpace names CFO; and more

Charlie Ellis, an 11-year veteran of Microsoft who worked on the Excel and SharePoint teams, has joined three-year-old Seattle startup… Read More

California firm to purchase 63 acres for massive data center in central Washington

Quincy, Washington — an agricultural town near the Columbia River in central Washington — continues to attract technology companies in… Read More

Sneaker giant Nike jumps into the venture capital game

Technology giants such as Intel, Google and Cisco have found value in bankrolling small startup companies that help meet their… Read More

UW, WSU score $80M to turn wood products into biofuels

Seattle’s biofuels industry took a big hit a few years ago when Imperium Renewables canceled its IPO, laid off staff… Read More

Tech Moves: Klustner joins Powerit; Trulia names a chief economist; DocuSign; etc.

Rob Friedman has been named the new director of University of Washington Tacoma’s Institute of Technology. The New Yorker — who arrives at… Read More

Imperium, Boeing consortium wins DOE grant to develop renewable jet fuel

A consortium led by LanzaTech, and consisting of Imperium Renewables, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and The Boeing Co., will receive… Read More

Once left for dead, Imperium makes comeback as biodiesel plant roars back to life

Remember the story of Imperium Renewables? The Seattle company once held so much promise for the region’s clean tech industry,… Read More

Nerd Notes: McGinn loves the Leaf; Tomato Battle in Seattle; Comcast bans a data hog; and much more

•Mike McGinn is going electric. The Seattle Mayor today announced that the city has added five new Nissan Leaf electric… Read More

Seattle picnic shelters to double as solar energy facilities

One of the challenges with solar power in Seattle — in addition to the abundance of gray skies — is… Read More

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation bankroll project to turn ‘fecal sludge’ into biodiesel

An environmental engineering professor at Columbia University has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation… Read More

Fresh off Rockefeller Center win, Optimum Energy lands $5M

Optimum Energy, whose software is used to reduce energy consumption in buildings, has raised $5 million in new financing. Total… Read More

South Lake Union goes ‘green,’ gets 24 EV charging stations

Driving through Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood yesterday, I passed by the Propel biodiesel fueling station. I was struck by… Read More

Clean water startup PotaVida takes top prize at UW business plan competition

From healthy French fries to to online travel planning services to urban grocery stores in converted shipping containers, this year’s… Read More

Boeing, Alaska Air, WSU and others set ‘flight plan’ for renewable aviation fuels in the NW

A group of more than 40 regional companies, government entities and educational institutions have come together to explore the possibilities… Read More

Ford touts electric vehicles at Seattle Green Festival

The Seattle Green Festival is taking place this weekend at the Qwest Event Center, featuring everyone from Rep. Dennis Kucinich… Read More

Benaroya backs smart grid software startup Calico Energy

Calico Energy has developed technologies to help residential and business customers reduce energy costs, a proposition that’s winning the Bellevue company… Read More

Rain-soaked Seattle sports stadium gets solar panels

The way the rains have been hammering Seattle over the past few months, I am not sure if this technology… Read More

Jeff Bezos goes nuclear, backs B.C. startup’s plan to create safe nuclear power

What is it with Seattle area billionaires and their love of nuclear power? Earlier this week, Microsoft co-founder touted the… Read More

Meet the four finalists for Zino’s $50,000 ‘green investment’ prize

Twenty one entrepreneurs in the areas of clean tech, green IT, energy efficiency and more competed at the ZINO Society’s… Read More

The urban dwelling of the future, built like a Lego set

The future of urban dwellings may be making its debut in a SoDo warehouse today. The Seattle architecture firm of… Read More

Looking to make Seattle buildings efficient, Mayor McGinn launches Community Power Works program

Mayor Mike McGinn today kicked off his support of the Community Power Works program, an effort to create “green jobs” and… Read More

Floyd, LeFaivre, others named to NW Energy Angels advisory board

The Pacific Northwest has a solid slate of clean tech companies — from fuel cell maker ReliOn which just scored… Read More