Nominate the Next David & Patricia Giuliani Clean Energy Entrepreneur of the Year

Each year at our Future of Carbon Policy Forum, we award the David & Patricia Giuliani Clean Energy Entrepreneur award in honor of our late founder and his wife. The award recognizes businesses making meaningful advances in clean energy innovation. Previous winners include Yakima Chief Hops, Edo, Group14, Myno Carbon, and Kenworth Truck Company.

*2026 David & Patricia Giuliani Clean Energy Entrepreneur Award winners Yakima Chief Hops*

We’re honored to support and elevate businesses at the cutting edge of the clean energy transition locally – and globally. If Washington is going to continue to lead the way on effective, ambitious climate action, it’s crucial that we support these partners and ensure their technologies, investments, and the jobs they provide remain in our state.

Is your company – or another that you admire – bringing forward new ideas to accelerate our transition to a clean economy? If so, nominate them for the 2027 David & Patricia Giuliani Clean Energy Entrepreneur award!

We welcome nominations for large companies and small businesses, iconic establishments and fledgling start-ups, in any sector whether power, transportation, agriculture, maritime, manufacturing, software – you name it. Criteria includes:

Doing business in Washington state
Measurable reduction of greenhouse gases and criteria pollutants
Positive impact on overburdened communities
Innovation that leads sector-wide change
Job creation

Please share the nomination form with your networks. The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2026.

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Federal Rollbacks Will Increase Household Energy Costs

Federal energy policy is making it harder to build the affordable electricity America needs, which will ultimately drive up costs for consumers and make it harder to meet rapidly growing demand.

New analysis from Energy Innovation finds that federal policy changes since January 2025 could result in 637 gigawatts (GW) less clean energy capacity by 2040 and $650 billion in additional household energy costs.

That’s especially concerning as U.S. electricity demand is projected to grow 30-55 percent by 2040. We need to be generating more energy, not building barriers to the resources that can meet that demand.

At the state level, that means tackling the siting, permitting, and interconnection challenges keeping projects stuck in the pipeline. For Washington, our Build SHIIT work focuses on identifying practical solutions to these barriers and creating a clearer path for projects to move from proposal to construction.

We saw a different approach in Texas during our Study Mission 6.0, where proactive, market-based approaches are helping unlock clean energy development at scale.

Federal policy may limit some of the tools available to states, but there’s still a lot we can do. We need to find practical ways to break down barriers, speed up development, and keep clean energy projects moving forward.

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