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Pacific Northwest Event Boasts Global Speakers – Washington’s Energy Future Conference

Washington’s Energy Future Conference in Seattle attracts several hundred of the region’s clean energy professionals, policy makers and solution providers. The speakers come from around the world.

Urban Smart Bellevue – Energy-Saving Actions, Powerful Results

Urban Smart Bellevue is designed to help everyone save energy through simple actions, and already includes some of the city’s most innovative organizations.

Avista’s Approach is Working to Make Small Businesses More Energy Efficient

Avista launched an energy efficiency program that attempts to capture large amounts of potential energy savings from small businesses. So far, it’s working.

What does utility-scale wind power have to do with private-sector brands?

Amazon Web Services has some large customers. Those customers have sustainability goals, and they are asking the cloud computing giant what it’s doing to green up the energy portfolio of AWS data

Net Zero Energy Rental Home Is Seattle’s First Ever

SEATTLE — This weekend’s Northwest Green Home Tour will feature Seattle’s first “net zero” rental home.

Electric Bikes and Scooters are Critical Technologies for Smart Cities

E-bikes, e-scooters, and shared EVs help cities transition to clean energy. Smart cities must do their part, says a Navigant Research analyst.

Rewiring the Northwest’s Energy Infrastructure is Goal #1 for 2040

SEATTLE — By Rhys Roth — The Northwest can build an affordable, resilient energy system mostly powered by renewable energy that unites now-separate electrical, transportation and heating sectors

Oregon’s Energy Future Conference 2016

PORTLAND, OR — On April 13, 2016, at the Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel, the Energy Future Conference will celebrate 10 years of addressing the business side of clean energy.