Peregrine Hydrogen, a Santa Cruz, Calif., startup developing technology for producing clean hydrogen, raised $7.8 million in seed financing. The company is aiming to manufacture climate friendly hydrogen that is… 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
Funding news: The Seattle area’s Zap Energy will receive $5 million from a newly launched federal program supporting the commercial development of fusion power. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Milestone-Based… Read More
Four Pacific Northwest public-private partnerships have won support from the National Science Foundation through a $43 million nationwide program to promote regional technology innovations. The NSF’s Regional Innovation Engines program… Read More
Microsoft and Helion Energy on Wednesday announced a historic agreement that could pave the way to the world’s first fusion power plant. Helion plans to build the commercial facility in… Read More
Myno Carbon‘s leader calls his team “committed climate warriors.” But it wasn’t always that way. “You’ll have to forgive us for this, but we’re ex-oilfield people largely by background,” said… Read More
Slashing carbon emissions requires the rapid deployment of solar, wind and other renewable energy supplies. But the projects often require complicated, lengthy negotiations between clean energy developers and buyers to… Read More
First Mode, the clean-energy company that was recently transformed from a Seattle startup into an Anglo American subsidiary, is getting a boost from Washington state. The Washington State Department of… Read More
Seattle-based First Mode and Anglo American have closed a complicated $1.5 billion transaction that will remake First Mode as a clean-energy company for heavy industry — and shift its headquarters… Read More
Newly released renderings show a building planned for the west campus of the University of Washington in Seattle that will be home to research centers in clean energy, medical science… Read More
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is asking lawmakers to allocate $10 million in funding for Washington State University’s Institute for Northwest Energy Futures. The effort to launch the institute began in… Read More
Seattle-area tech giants Amazon and Microsoft were global leaders in clean energy power purchase agreements made by corporations last year. Amazon held the top spot for the second year in… Read More
For decades, the promise of harnessing the power of fusion on a commercial scale to create vast amounts of carbon-free energy has hovered just out of reach for scientists. At… 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 Web Services is announcing the creation of a 5-week accelerator to support clean technology startups. Applications to the AWS Clean Energy Accelerator are being accepted starting today until June… Read More
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is putting his money as well as his mouth behind the push for new energy technologies. First, about the money: Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures is doubling… Read More
Breakthrough Energy Ventures — an initiative to help the planet reach zero carbon emissions through innovation — has raised its second $1 billion round of funding. The new capital will… Read More
In the midst of one global disaster, Bill Gates is thinking about how to prevent the next. And while the world clearly wasn’t prepared to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic,… Read More
When COVID-19 grounded travelers in early 2020, Chris Brooks and his team had to cancel more than a dozen teaching contracts in Africa, Central America, a Native American reservation and… Read More
As COVID-19 began sickening and killing thousands, shutting down the world’s economies and emptying schools, many people belatedly acknowledged Bill Gates’ prescient TED Talk in 2015 that described the threat… Read More
Decarbon8-US, the recently launched, climate-focused philanthropic investment fund, has announced the first three startups that it will be supporting and putting forward for additional investments. The companies are developing technologies… Read More
With fewer people on the move during the pandemic, Bill Gates is taking the time to think about better ways to get around when we can again. Specifically, the Microsoft… Read More
If you’ve got the dough to buy an electric vehicle, Washington state and the rest of the Western U.S. should have the juice to keep it charged — at least… Read More
David Schaefer hesitates to call his technology a kite. It’s modeled on the same concept — a lightweight sail or wing with a frame that’s tethered to the Earth —… Read More
— Computers, at least the ones somewhat resembling what we know today, have been around since the mid-20th Century. Seattle is lucky enough to have some of the original gems… 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
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is celebrating the official launch of Breakthrough Energy Ventures Europe, an investment fund that aims to boost clean-energy innovation in Europe to the tune of 100… Read More
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee wants his state to become the green standard in the fight against climate change, and he just secured a big victory in pursuit of that goal.… Read More
More than 229 megawatts of clean power will be added to Amazon Web Services’ data centers by the end of 2021 through three new wind farm deals announced Monday by… Read More
