Alternative Energy
Tesla to start deliveries of Model S electrics
LOS ANGELES -- Tesla Motors Inc. said it will begin delivering its first mass production electric car -- the high-end Model S -- to customers starting June 22, about a month ahead of the expected schedule.
Date: 05/24/2012 | Business
Terrace park-and-ride earns green certification
The Mountlake Terrace park-and-ride center has received a Green Globes certification for its environmentally friendly features.The parking garage at the center is fitted with solar panels and efficient lighting and was built with recycled material.
Date: 05/23/2012 | Local News
Biofuels firm to repay county
Company failed to fulfill contract for canola project
Date: 05/16/2012 | Local News
Mid-Atlantic wind transmission line clears hurdle
WASHINGTON -- A huge underwater power line to serve wind farms planned off the East Coast cleared a regulatory hurdle Monday, although construction is still years away.
Date: 05/14/2012 | Nation & World
Investors powering Tesla
LOS ANGELES -- DeLorean Motor Co. never had a future to get back to. Tucker Corp. got torpedoed. Fisker Automotive doesn't seem to have good karma.Launching a new auto business and building a brand in the United States is no simple task.
Date: 05/12/2012 | Business
Terrace park-and-ride adds electric car chargers
MOUNTLAKE TERRACE -- People with electric cars now will have the option of charging up while they ride the bus to work.
Date: 05/07/2012 | Local News
Cedar Grove under fire
Compost facility hasn’t fulfilled obligations, opponents say
Date: 05/04/2012 | Local News
Big wind power farm planned near Oakesdale
SPOKANE -- A major wind power farm will be built in the Palouse this summer, Boston-based First Wind announced Tuesday.
Date: 05/01/2012 | Northwest
Gas prices jumpstart sales of hybrid vehicles
DETROIT -- Americans are buying record numbers of hybrid and electric cars as gas prices climb and new models arrive in showrooms, giving the vehicles their greatest share yet of the U.S. auto market.
Date: 04/14/2012 | Business
PUD’s Sultan dam honored by energy group
SULTAN -- The Youngs Creek hydropower project, recently built by the Snohomish County Public Utility District, has been selected by Renewable Energy World as the winner of its Hydro Project of the Year...
Date: 04/05/2012 | Local News
Apple plans nation's biggest private fuel cell energy project in N.C.
RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina will be home to the nation's largest private fuel cell energy project, a nonpolluting, silent power plant that will generate electricity from hydrogen.
Date: 04/04/2012 | Business
Cedar Grove emissions test shows low-level toxins
Recent state testing on emissions at one of Cedar Grove Composting's plants showed the presence of some toxic substances such as benzene and formaldehyde, but officials say it doesn't mean the business poses a hazard to human health.
Date: 03/26/2012 | Local News
Monroe farmers win sustainability award
MONROE -- Jim and Andy Werkhoven's efforts to run a cleaner dairy operation have won them the Outstanding Dairy Farm Sustainability Award in the inaugural U.S. Dairy Sustainability Awards.
Date: 03/19/2012 | Business
Selection of gas-sippers is getting better
DETROIT -- Gasoline prices are headed for record highs this spring. If that happens, a new, more fuel-efficient car may be worth the investment.
Date: 03/15/2012 | Business
Drive and determination
Granite Falls students intend to win eco-car competitions
Date: 03/08/2012 | Local News
Columbia Gorge wind farm opponents may go to court
YAKIMA -- Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire on Monday approved plans for a wind farm on the north side of the Columbia River Gorge over the objections of conservation groups and neighboring landowners, who fear the project will create unwanted noise, harm endangered species habitat and mar a popular...
Date: 03/05/2012 | Northwest
Danish toy maker Lego invests in wind energy
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Danish toy maker Lego says its parent company is investing nearly $534 million over the next four years in the construction of a German offshore wind farm.
Date: 02/24/2012 | Business
Congress deals major blow to wind power industry
CHICAGO -- The wind industry is predicting massive layoffs and stalled or abandoned projects after a deal to renew a tax credit for wind production failed Thursday in Washington.
Date: 02/17/2012 | Business
Solyndra audit finds loan program lacked oversight
WASHINGTON -- An independent audit of the federal loan guarantee initiatives that backed the troubled solar technology company Solyndra failed to turn up the waste and broad incompetence that critics assert riddled the programs.
Date: 02/12/2012 | Nation & World
Navy goes green with renewable energy at Guantanamo
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- Solar-powered lights serve as sentries where U.S. Marines once faced-off along the Cuban frontier. A team of Navy cops now rides bikes rather than gas-guzzling patrol cars in the searing Caribbean sunshine.
Date: 02/12/2012 | Nation & World
Nuclear Regulatory Commission approves first new nuclear plant in 3 decades
WASHINGTON -- The nation's first new nuclear power plant in a generation won approval Thursday as federal regulators voted to grant a license for two new reactors in Georgia.
Date: 02/09/2012 | Business
Big solutions in a beaker
Glacier Peak students work with algae to fix big problems
Date: 02/03/2012 | Local News
Mid-Atlantic wind farms take step forward with OK from environmental officials
BALTIMORE -- Offshore wind farms from New Jersey to Virginia took a big step closer to reality with the completion of a review that showed the renewable energy source would not cause major environmental damage, officials said Thursday.
Date: 02/03/2012 | Business
GM CEO defends company over Chevy Volt battery
WASHINGTON -- The chairman and CEO of General Motors Co. is defending the company over battery fires in Chevrolet Volt electric cars last year.
Date: 01/25/2012 | Business
Geothermal project to make power by pouring water into a volcano
Geothermal energy developers plan to pump 24 million gallons of water into the side of a dormant volcano in Central Oregon this summer to demonstrate new technology they hope will give a boost to a green energy sector that has yet to live up to its promise.
Date: 01/16/2012 | Northwest
PUD adds wind to energy alternatives it is exploring
EVERETT -- Add wind power to the types of alternative energy being studied by the Snohomish County Public Utility District.
Date: 01/12/2012 | Local News
Monroe will get charging station for electric cars
MONROE -- The Electric Highway is coming to Snohomish County.The county's first electric-vehicle charging station to be built as part of the state's own network is scheduled to be installed soon in Monroe.
Date: 01/09/2012 | Local News
10 steps to greener 777s
Boeing workers make deliveries easier on the environment
Date: 01/02/2012 | Business
Wind farm friends, foes await Gregoire's decision
OLYMPIA -- Gov. Cris Gregoire is expected to offer her opinion within 60 days on a proposed wind farm that would be visible from two towns in the heart of the Columbia Gorge National Scenic Area.
Date: 12/29/2011 | Northwest
Solar power advocate takes to Edmonds roof to promote cooperative
EDMONDS -- Inspired by Occupy Wall Street activists, Carlo Voli took to a downtown Edmonds roof earlier this month to draw attention to the progress the city's solar cooperative has made in the past year and what ground still needs to be covered.
Date: 12/20/2011 | Local News
Audit faults Air Force's Alaska wind turbines
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The Defense Department's attempt to go green at remote radar locations in Alaska by replacing diesel generators with wind turbines was poorly planned and delays could cost millions, according to an audit by the department's inspector general.
Date: 11/13/2011 | Northwest
Talk of new dam on Skykomish above falls resisted
INDEX -- Just as the Snohomish County PUD has finished building its first mini-dam, it's encountering resistance to the possibility of another.
Date: 11/03/2011 | Local News
New trouble reported at Japan nuclear plant
TOKYO -- Officials detected a radioactive gas associated with nuclear fission at Japan's tsunami-damaged atomic power plant today, indicating there could be a new problem at one of its reactors. They injected a substance that neutralizes nuclear reactions as a precaution.
Date: 11/02/2011 | Nation & World
County's fleet gets greener
About 62 percent of the fleet now uses alternative fuels
Date: 11/01/2011 | Local News
Kimberly-Clark buys generating equipment from PUD for $26.5M
EVERETT -- Snohomish County's main electricity provider is due to receive money Monday from Kimberly-Clark as a result of the planned closure of the wood products plant, and there could be more.
Date: 10/31/2011 | Local News
Charging into the future
PUD workshop shows growing potential for electric cars
Date: 10/29/2011 | Local News
Ore. study shows downside to burning biomass
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Oregon's blue-sky thinking on alternative energy envisions the state's forests as a terrific source of biomass. Woody debris from thinning, brush clearing and removing dead trees could generate electricity, heat manufacturing plants and be turned into biofuels.
Date: 10/23/2011 | Northwest
Small dam, major power
PUD builds a hydropower project on a creek near Sultan
Date: 10/19/2011 | Local News
Wind farm recommended near Columbia River Gorge
VANCOUVER -- A Washington state agency is recommending approval of a wind farm near the Columbia River Gorge.
Date: 10/07/2011 | Northwest
Lake Stevens High’s solar panel to generate power, learning opportunities
LAKE STEVENS -- Installation of a solar panel is planned for the roof of the Lake Stevens High School Performing Arts Center.
Date: 09/21/2011 | Local News
Brightwater is built to save energy in addition to treating wastewater
MALTBY -- When the $1.8 billion Brightwater plant opens Saturday, it will have several environmentally friendly features in addition to providing sewage treatment.
Date: 09/20/2011 | Local News
PUD to drill nearly a mile deep in search of geothermal power
The hope of generating geothermal power in Snohomish County could take a giant leap forward in the next few months.Or, it could send the Snohomish County Public Utility District back to the drawing board.
Date: 09/03/2011 | Local News
Biofuels industry gets boost from $510 million Navy plan
The federal government intends to jump-start the fledgling biofuels industry in the name of national security.
Date: 08/18/2011 | Nation & World
Battle highlights unsettled Idaho power market
BOISE, Idaho -- Idaho's unsettled renewable energy landscape is again bedeviling the state utilities regulator, with a solar developer in Elmore County battling Idaho Power Co. over the lucrative renewable energy certificates that accompany its 20-megawatt project.
Date: 08/12/2011 | Northwest
Teacher runs his pickup on culled-apple ethanol
WENATCHEE -- Instead of fueling his truck at the gas station, Tim Bombaci is getting his fuel from his neighbors. His neighbors who own orchards, that is.
Date: 07/16/2011 | Business
Whidbey's solar P-patch
Group builds a solar-energy farm in island's 'rain shadow'
Date: 07/16/2011 | Local News
Kodiak moves forward with plan to get 95 percent of power from wind and hydro
KODIAK, Alaska -- Kodiak is moving forward with a plan to have more than 95 percent of electrical power generation come from renewable sources within just a few years.
Date: 07/11/2011 | Northwest
Electric car station opens at Qwest Field
SEATTLE -- Heidi Bray's trip to Seattle on Thursday morning was well-planned -- she had to be in the city for at least five hours, or she wouldn't be able to make it back to Olympia.The electric-car owner's 120-mile round trip just became possible, and it's about to get a whole lot easier.
Date: 06/13/2011 | Northwest
Data being collected for Snohomish PUD's tidal power project
PORT TOWNSEND -- Four submerged data collection devices were retrieved in Admiralty Inlet off the shore of Whidbey Island on Wednesday as scientists prepare to monitor ocean life around turbine electrical generators.
Date: 06/13/2011 | Northwest
Let there be cheaper light
With PUD help, Snohomish schools seek to cut energy use
Date: 06/13/2011 | Business
More Longview Fibre wood waste burning OK'd
LONGVIEW -- The state Ecology Department has approved an expansion of the wood waste burning power plant at the Longview Fibre mill in Longview.
Date: 06/03/2011 | Northwest
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