The wheels of progress on a proposed wind farm project that would stretch across dozens of miles southwest of the Tri-Cities are grinding slower after a judge recently delayed deadlines in lawsuits challenging the project.
All three of the public electric utilities serving the Tri-Cities have signed new long-term power purchase agreements with Bonneville Power Administration, a move the utilities say will provide some certainty for their operations and their customers’ future energy bills.
The once fast-growing solar installation company that started in a Pasco garage less than a decade ago has declared bankruptcy and is shutting down all operations.
A plan to embed a high-voltage cable 10 to 15 feet beneath the Columbia River to better transfer the renewable energy generated east of the Cascades to the west side is now open to public comment.
A new eco-fuel development nonprofit, dubbed the Cascadia Sustainable Aviation Accelerator, in Snohomish County is the state’s latest effort to support sustainable aviation fuel. That effort includes a proposed green jet fuel production facility south of the Tri-Cities.
Washington is once again trying to become a hub for nuclear power. But instead of monster-size reactors, the state is now home to multiple ventures involving smaller reactors – all using technologies unheard of in the 1970s and 1980s.
About 137,000 customers will pay more in their monthly electric bills beginning today following recent state approval of PacifiCorp’s latest rate increase request.
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are taking the next step in advancing the lab’s goal to help bring more large-scale energy storage systems to market.
