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Energy

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

MIT spinout Liquid Metal Battery lands $15M from Bill Gates, others

Liquid Metal Battery Corporation, an MIT spin out that’s developing new technologies for electricity storage, has raised $15 million in funding… Read More

Seattle geeks win Apps for Energy challenge with Leafully

Sometimes it can be tough to put one’s energy consumption into perspective. But what if you broke everything down into… Read More

Bill Gates: ‘Cheap energy is like a fantastic vaccine’

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is back in the news, talking about the importance of nuclear power. And while the software… Read More

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

EcoSpeed: Driving directions plus fuel-efficient speeds along the way

Lots of online mapping services tell people how to get someplace. A new Google Maps mashup, developed by Seattle-based Clarian… Read More

‘Olympus’ supercomputer targets energy breakthroughs, with help from some water

The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., now has its own supercomputer, named Olympus, after the… 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

Microsoft closing down Hohm energy management service

Attention, startups: The home-energy management market just got a lot less competitive — for anyone who can figure out a… Read More

Bill Gates touts nuclear energy, says coal kills more people

Nuclear energy can be made safe in part through advanced computer simulation and next-generation power plant designs, according to Microsoft… Read More

Microsoft shifts Hohm away from homes, focuses on electric cars

Microsoft unveiled the Hohm service in order to help home owners get a better sense of their energy consumption. But nearly… Read More

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