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How President Trump will change science policy, starting with climate issues

Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the presidential election opens the way for a profound reversal in environmental policies, even as… Read More

EnergySavvy raises $14 million in funding, revamps services for utilities

EnergySavvy, a Seattle startup that helps utilities better relate to their customers, has released what it called its fifth generation of products,… Read More

Amazon is building a massive wind farm in western Texas — its largest yet

To satisfy the voracious energy appetite of Amazon Web Services’ cloud data centers and other parts of Amazon’s business, the… Read More

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Elon Musk touts power-generating solar roofs as future SolarCity product

The bad news is that SolarCity, the power-generating company that has Elon Musk as its chairman, is losing money. The… Read More

Alexa, how much water am I using? Connected Buildings Challenge paves way for smarter, efficient energy use

Ever wish you could say: “Alexa, how much water am I using?” or “Siri, lower the house’s energy input?” That reality… Read More

Carbon-free cloud: Microsoft sets ambitious goals for renewable energy

REDMOND, Wash. – Microsoft is kicking up its targets for environmentally sustainable cloud computing by pledging that half of the electricity… Read More

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Bill and Melinda Gates’ message to teens: Time and energy are superpowers — and they can help fight global poverty

For wealthy people, living in wealthy countries, privilege manifests itself in obvious ways. But it also exists in more subtle… Read More

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Wendelstein 7-X fusion ‘pretzel’ fires up its first hydrogen plasma in Germany

Hydrogen plasma was produced for the first time today in Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X fusion device, which has been called the… Read More

Glowing plasma

EMC2 revives its quest for nuclear fusion

After languishing in limbo for most of the last year, EMC2 Fusion Development Corp. says it’s back in business with… Read More

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‘Star Wars’ tech: Latest threat suggests the bad guys have perfected plasma physics

Spoiler Alert! This post doesn’t reveal any major plot twists, but it does explore a significant element of the new movie. Stop… Read More

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Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and other tech titans form the Breakthrough Energy Coalition to invest in zero-carbon energy technologies

Some of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful individuals are forming a new organization known as the Breakthrough Energy Coalition to… Read More

Inspired by ‘Back to the Future,’ this machine turns food waste into energy

Many people in the Northwest separate out their table scraps, wilted leaves and old fruit, carting them off eventually to… Read More

Amazon builds 208MW wind farm to power AWS cloud data centers, its biggest renewable energy source yet

The cloud is getting cleaner. Amazon announced today that it is building a wind farm to power future Amazon Web… Read More

This easy Xbox One fix could save a lot of energy

If you have an Xbox One in your home, you might want to check out its energy output. Last year… Read More

EnergySavvy and Opower team up to integrate their technology for utilities

EnergySavvy and Opower have teamed up to offer their technology to energy companies together in an attempt to present a… Read More

Building Energy secures $300K to grow cloud-hosted energy management

Building Energy, a Portland-based company that helps manage energy efficiency in commercial buildings, says it’s secured $300,000 in growth funding… Read More

Seattle renewable energy company plans $200M wind farm off Oregon Coast

Winds coming off the Pacific Coast could soon provide energy to Americans thanks to a Seattle company. Principle Power, a renewable… Read More

Microsoft one step closer to fuel cell-powered server racks

Last year, Microsoft released a paper that explored the feasability of powering servers with rack-mounted fuel cells to increase the… Read More

Planetary Power rolls out ‘HyGen’ — the Toyota Prius of diesel generators

For the six-person crew that lived through a grueling four-month Mars simulation on Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano last year, this… Read More

Top energy-efficient U.S. cities: Portland second, Seattle fifth

Chalk one up for Portland in its rivalry with the big brother up north — the Rose City is “greener”… Read More

Optimum Energy heats up with $12.2M to intelligently adjust temperature settings in buildings

Optimum Energy, a Seattle startup whose software intelligently adjusts a building’s temperature in order to reduce energy consumption, has scored… Read More

Paul Allen bankrolls documentary film that touts promise of nuclear power

Seattle billionaire Paul Allen has been showing some of his diversity in recent weeks, selling abstract art; procuring a rare… Read More

Take a look inside Earth’s ‘greenest building’

It is being called the “greenest building” on the planet. And it’s located right here in Seattle. Welcome to the… Read More

Bill Gates invests in energy storage again, this time with battery maker Aquion

In the past few years, Bill Gates has already invested in three energy storage companies — MIT spinout Metal Battery (renamed… Read More

Geek of the Week: This chemist and his team are hacking molecules for cheaper energy

Anyone who has shopped for a ring knows that platinum doesn’t come cheap. Existing fuel cells rely on this precious… Read More

Northwest Energy Angels invest record $4.7 Million in 2012

Despite decreasing overall venture capital investments in cleantech worldwide, Northwest Energy Angels announced today that its members invested $4,696,500 in 15 clean technology… Read More

TerraPower nuclear engineer emerges at stealthy energy startup SuperCritical Technologies

Chal Davidson, the former lead engineer at TerraPower, the nuclear reactor startup backed by Intellectual Ventures and Microsoft co-founder Bill… Read More

Battery breakthrough: New technology promises to triple lithium ion capacity

Remember those Energizer Bunny commercials touting batteries that kept going, and going, and going? Well, researchers at Washington State University have developed… Read More

Renewable fuel startup spins out from Targeted Growth with investment from Avista

Matrix Genetics has received an undisclosed investment from Avista Development, the venture capital arm of Spokane utility Avista Corp. The… Read More

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen bankrolls Siluria in ambitious attempt to find an oil alternative

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital is co-leading a $30 million investment in Siluria Technologies, a San Francisco company that’s developing… Read More

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