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First Look at Amazon Backed SMR Planned for Washington
Renderings of the Cascade Advanced Energy Facility, a planned nuclear plant near Richland, Wash., that is a partnership of Amazon, X-energy and Energy Northwest. (X-energy Illustration) Last year, Amazon announced agreements to preserve existing and support the...
Amazon’s Carbon Emissions Rise 6% in Latest Sustainability Report
A display promoting Amazon’s sustainability efforts at the Bloomberg Green Seattle event yesterday. Amazon was the prime sponsor of the three-day conference. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Amazon recently released its 2024 Amazon Sustainability Report, showing that...
GM & Redwood Materials Exploring Vehicle Batteries for Energy Storage
General Motors and Redwood materials recently announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding to accelerate deployment of energy storage systems using both new U.S.-manufactured batteries from GM and second-life battery packs from GM electric vehicles. “The...
Environmental Groups Sue BPA For Joining SPP’s Power Market
Ice Harbor Dam, Bonneville Power Administration Late last week, five advocacy groups filed a lawsuit in federal court over Bonneville Power Administration’s recent decision to join Southwest Power Pool’s (SPP) Markets+ (a power market operator). Plaintiffs say the...
Grant PUD is Updating their Clean Energy Implementation Plan
Grant PUD recently shared that work is underway to create an updated plan to detail their continuing efforts to meet the state’s clean-energy mandate, which includes special provisions for underrepresented and vulnerable customer groups. The 2026-2029 Clean Energy...
CEWD Energy Curriculum Adoption Series
The Center for Energy Workforce Development (CEWD) is hosting public, free, educational webinars this August and September as part of Take Action in August: Energy Curriculum Adoption. The series will feature weekly webinars spotlighting energy curriculum tools,...
Dept. of Energy Releases New Grid Reliability Report
Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Energy released a report evaluating U.S. grid reliability and security- warning that blackouts could increase by 100 times in 2023 if the U.S. continues to shutter reliable power sources and fails to add additional firm...
CFS and Google Announce a New PPA Deal
Commonwealth Fusion Systems specialized magnet. CFS photo. Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) and Google announced a new deal earlier this week: Google has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with CFS for 200MW of electricity from CFS’ inaugural ARC power plant....
Group14’s Delayed Production Start- Hope for the Future
Group14’s BAM-2 silicon anode manufacturing facility in Moses Lake. One production module should be commissioned and start generating silicon battery material by the end of the year, while the second should start early next year. (Group14 Photo) Group14 Technologies,...
Energy Northwest and BPA Advance Plan to Increase Region’s Nuclear Power
The Columbia nuclear power plant. Last month, Energy Northwest and Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) announced the approval of a $700 million project proposal to increase the output of the Columbia Generation Station nuclear facility, which is the region's third...