Clean & Prosperous Institute (CPI) is now accepting nominations for the David & Patricia Giuliani Clean Energy Entrepreneur Award! This award, which honors our organization’s late founder and his wife, recognizes businesses making meaningful advances in clean energy innovation. The award is presented annually at our Future of Carbon Policy Forum.
Last year, Washington State Department of Commerce Director Joe Nguyen presented the award to Edo. Edo partners with utilities to transform buildings, making them grid-interactive to achieve energy efficiency, reliability, and decarbonization. Created by McKinstry and Avista, two corporate leaders representing both sides of the electric meter, Edo aggregates commercial buildings into virtual power plants, providing electric utilities with demand flexibility.
Previous winners also include Group14, a clean energy innovator that specializes in silicon battery materials, Myno Carbon, which builds large-scale biochar production carbon removal facilities, and Kenworth Truck Company for their work to advance zero emission trucks.
Is your company – or one that you admire – advancing new ideas to accelerate our transition to a clean energy economy? If so, please fill out the nomination form here.
We welcome nominations for large companies and small businesses, iconic establishments and start-ups, in any sector, whether power, transportation, agriculture, maritime, manufacturing, software, etc. Criteria includes:
- Doing business in Washington state
- Measurable reduction of greenhouse gasses and criteria pollutants
- Positive impact on overburdened communities
- Innovation that leads sector-wide change
- Job creation
We encourage you to share the nomination form with your networks. The deadline for submissions is September 10, 2025.
Stay tuned for more details on our 8th Annual Future of Carbon Policy Forum!
EV Fast-Charging Sets Record Pace in 2025
Inside EVs recently reported some great news for the electric vehicle (EV) transition: The deployment of fast-charging ports is setting a record pace in 2025!
From the story:
- 2025 will see a 20 percent year-over-year increase in new ports across the U.S.
- The U.S. is on track to add 16,700 public fast-charging ports by the end of 2025, which is about 2.4 times the number of ports added in 2022.
- If this pace continues, the U.S. will have 100,000 fast-charging ports by 2027.
Washington state is doing our part to contribute to this progress. Over the next several months, the state will bring more than 630 fast-charging ports online across Washington – all funded by the Climate Commitment Act. CPI is proud to support the deployment of nearly half of these fast-charging ports through our Charging Forward Together program.
Heatmap News: “The West is Primed for a Megafire”
In case you missed it: Heatmap reported a sobering story about the elevated likelihood that the west will experience a megafire this year.
Significant fire potential in the Pacific Northwest is expected to remain at above average levels through September, largely because almost all of Washington and Oregon are “abnormally dry or in drought status.” Live fuels are drying at rapid levels in Washington, in particular.
It hasn’t always been this way. Before 1970, the United States had never had a documented megafire. Between 2005 – 2014, that number jumped to an average of nearly 10 megafires per year.
Climate change has material, and all too often devastating, impacts on communities and livelihoods. Our changing climate has increased the frequency of wildfires, and as we have seen this year, the impacts of these fires will be felt by communities immediately and for generations.
Reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that make disasters like wildfires more prevalent and investing in resilience strategies like prescribed burns are essential to helping save lives, livelihoods, and keeping the air we breathe safe and clean.
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