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.
A coalition of environmental and energy groups and state agencies have filed their opening arguments against Bonneville Power Administration as it asks a federal court to stop the power agency from moving to a new energy market based in the eastern United States.
Rather than converting farmland to solar facilities, we could build solar arrays and continue growing crops and raising livestock beneath the gentle shade of the panels. This approach is called “agrivoltaics,” and it could be one way to ease competition between the agriculture and solar energy sectors.
The demands of modernizing the energy grid have clashed with the wishes of those living near or under that infrastructure in this Richland neighborhood.
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