Flexolar Solar Blinds Featured on KOMO-TV
VIDEO: UW student Caitlin Cramer demonstrates how Flexolar's flexible and durable solar cells can be incorporated into everyday household fixtures, like window blinds. ...
Staying Power: A New X-Ray Tool to Accelerate Battery Research at UW
A new tool developed by UW Clean Energy Institute faculty and students will provide important insights that could help engineers design more efficient and cost effective ways to produce and store energy, as well as power new devices such as electronics, cell phones and hybrid electric vehicles. ...
UW Undergrad ’s Early Life Challenges Become a Hectic Schedule of Opportunity
Undergraduate research student David Coven is an expert schedule juggler. Read more about this entrepreneurial undergrad who is helping Clean Energy Institute faculty create materials for use in flexible solar cells to make them more lightweight and transportable. ...
Washington State Legislators visit the UW CEI
A group of more than twenty Washington state legislators and staff members received an update on the work at the UW Clean Energy Institute. ...
Washington Takes Big Step Toward Renewable Energy Storage and Grid Integration
Progress in the state's energy storage and smart grid project received a big boost this week. On tuesday, Governor Jay Inslee announced a major state initiative to leverage state matching funds for three projects that will integrate power generated from intermittent renewable sources such as wind and solar in the state’s electrical grid. ...
How a “Game-changing” Gift is Supercharging UW Research
The Clean Energy Institute is among the recipients of a recent gift from the Washington Research Foundation that will help accelerate the Institute's discoveries of UW’s Clean Energy Institute from the laboratory to the marketplace. ...