Oscilla Power, a startup developing devices that capture wave energy to produce electricity, has ocean-sized ambitions. The Seattle-based business envisions deploying thousands of devices along the U. S. West Coast… Read More
Amazon for three years has ranked as the No. 1 corporate purchaser of renewable energy worldwide. As the retail, cloud and entertainment giant strives to reach net zero carbon emissions… Read More
As international scientists are frantically raising alarms about climate change, corporations, public policy and tech innovation are coming together to potentially unleash a large-scale rollout of solar, wind, batteries and… Read More
In the race to curb climate change, solar panels and wind turbines are being installed across the planet — but no one knows exactly where and how much renewable power… Read More
When people ask Brian Polagye how difficult is it to extract energy from the ocean, he offers an anecdote. The University of Washington associate professor was at a conference years… Read More
Seattle startup LevelTen Energy has raised $35 million in a Series C round led by NGP Energy Capital, with participation from Google and others. The company facilitates the purchase of… Read More
Amazon on Monday announced nine new wind and solar energy projects, bringing its total number of renewable projects to 206. The cloud company and online retail sales juggernaut now claims… Read More
Amazon announced its first solar energy facility in China on Thursday, one of five renewable energy projects the company is planning around the world. The other facilities will be built… Read More
Maryssa Barron grew up in a small, rural town in East Texas and spent most of her childhood playing music and running around the woods with friends. She went on… Read More
Washington state and British Columbia are partnering to share resources and work together as each government pursues ambitious clean energy goals. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and British Columbia Premier John… Read More
Another Seattle-area clean energy startup is raising cash. This time it’s WattBuy, which just reeled in a $1.2 million seed round led by venture capital firm Powerhouse Ventures to fund… Read More
Amazon revels in its reputation for taking bold, unexpected action, for being visionary in industries such as cloud computing and online retail sales. Its venerated Leadership Principles celebrate ambition, big… Read More
Starbucks has struck a first-of-its-kind clean energy deal that will generate enough power to run 3,000 of its stores by 2021. To pull it off, the coffee giant worked with… Read More
Several years ago, LevelTen CEO Bryce Smith saw that companies such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Apple were starting to buy up renewable projects in a major way. He smelled… Read More
Amazon has called its sustainability shot. The tech giant aims to get half of its package deliveries to a standard of net zero carbon by 2030, Amazon said Monday. Because… Read More
Budweiser is back at the Super Bowl, as usual, with another high-profile commercial in the contest for eyeballs, clicks and chatter among Monday morning advertising quarterbacks. The biggest beer company… Read More
T-Mobile said it will use entirely renewable energy to power its Bellevue, Wash. HQ within three years. T-Mobile said it is participating in Puget Sound Energy’s Green Direct program, giving… Read More
Facebook committed itself Tuesday to powering its entire global operation with renewable energy sources by the end of the decade, helped by some huge energy purchases it had made over… Read More
Microsoft just announced what it calls “the single largest corporate purchase of solar energy ever in the United States,” buying 315 megawatts from two new solar projects in Virginia as… Read More
You might say T-Mobile‘s head-to-toe magenta brand is going green. On Monday, the Bellevue, Wash., mobile network announced a pledge to use 100 percent renewable energy in just three years,… Read More
Microsoft said this morning it plans to cut carbon emissions by 75 percent by 2030, taking another step in a push to use more clean energy and make its operations… Read More
A deal allowing Microsoft to directly purchase clean energy to power its Redmond, Wash., headquarters campus has been approved by the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (WUTC). Microsoft and Puget Sound… Read More
Tesla CEO Elon Musk isn’t the only tech billionaire who’s high on solar power: Today, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos tweeted about the latest step in his company’s campaign to install… Read More
About a month from now, a solar plant on a 260-acre site in North Carolina will open, and that will be a big deal for Starbucks. That’s because the company… Read More
Public-cloud giant Amazon Web Services, along with Netflix and Samsung, is still lagging in its use of renewable energy, Greenpeace USA concluded in a new 102-page report, “Clicking Clean: Who is… Read More
With 2.6 GW (gigawatts) of renewable energy purchased, Google is on pace to reach 100 percent renewable energy next year, including all its data centers and offices, said Urs Hölzle,… Read More
Cloud computing and electric vehicles have something in common: they both obscure the source of their power. Often EV owners are pleased to believe that their cars are environmentally friendly because… Read More
South Korean energy giant Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction has acquired 1Energy Systems of Seattle, which develops software for utilities to manage the electrical grid and integrate renewable resources like wind and solar power. The… Read More
REDMOND, Wash. – Microsoft is kicking up its targets for environmentally sustainable cloud computing by pledging that half of the electricity to power its data centers will come from renewable sources by… Read More
Reports on the upcoming Paris climate talks are stating that Bill Gates’ next big project will be focusing on clean energy. According to ClimateWire, Gates will announce the “world’s largest… Read More