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Courtesy of The Chronicle By Amy Nile TransAlta officials announced Wednesday they have entered into an 11-year purchase agreement to provide power from the Centralia facility to Puget Sound Energy. The move ensures a customer for much of the electricity produced...

The Pacific Northwest Center of Excellence for Clean Energy has contracted with Vista Film & Video in Portland, Ore., to produce an Energy Efficiency Occupations video to educated students, faculty and job seekers on the ever-growing career opportunities in this...

The 7th Annual Energy & Construction Best Practices Summit wrapped up with an Energy & Construction Gubernatorial Forum, held June 22. Commissioner Philip Jones moderated the forum which included former U.S. Representative Jay Inslee (D) and Todd Myers, who...

Job seekers, educators and trainers are invited to explore our new Smart Grid Career Lattice Interactive Map. Thirteen careers (and where they are located) are represented by clickable green light bulbs. Try clicking today!

(CN) - Federal law cannot stop Washington state legislators from raising the bar on energy efficiency in new building construction, the 9th Circuit ruled. The Building Industry Association of Washington and other construction industry groups suedthe state in 2010,...

As reported by Electric Light and Power's Powergrid International (http://www.elp.com) -- Washington, D.C., June 26, 2012 — Reps. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Grace F. Napolitano (D-Calif.) introduced legislation to improve the performance of federally owned and...

By Steven Friederich, The Daily World -- Former congressman Jay Inslee hit the Harbor on Friday for his first visit as a Democratic gubernatorial candidate, talking about energy jobs at a summit in Elma and meeting with officials at the Port of Grays Harbor in...

The 7th Annual Energy & Construction Best Practices Summit: Energizing America’s Workforce for Tomorrow will host a gubernatorial Energy and Construction Forum June 22 at 11 am. The event will be moderated by Commissioner Philip B. Jones, Washington Utilities...

Wanda Reder, Chair of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE*) Smart Grid Taskforce and Vice President of Power Systems Services, S&C Electric Company in Chicago, will present Lighting the Way to a Smarter Grid as the keynote of the 7th Annual...