Items Tagged with "Puget Sound Energy"

Microsoft reaches utility deal to purchase clean power

In a move meant to support its corporate climate and renewable energy goals, Microsoft Corp. has reached a settlement with Washington utility Puget Sound Energy to allow the tech giant to purchase clean energy from the wholesale market. The settlement, reached by Microsoft, Puget Sound Ene Read More...

REI, Starbucks, Target opt in for PSE green tariff

A number of large corporate and municipal energy consumers, including REI, Starbucks and Target, have signed up for a newly approved green tariff offering from Puget Sound Energy. The Bellevue, Wash.-based utility said in an April 18 announcement about the product option that customers includin Read More...

Starbucks nears commercial operation of 1st solar farm

Aerial photo of Starbucks' solar farm, NC-47, in North Carolina provided by Starbucks Corp. Starbucks Corp. is making a strategic shift in its corporate renewable energy strategy. As evidenced by a string of recent accomplishments, the Seattle-based coffee company has illustrated Read More...

Regulators grant Microsoft direct access

Photo of Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash., provided by Microsoft.Microsoft Corp. announced July 13 that the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission approved a contract that allows the company to directly purchase clean energy from the wholesale market for its Puget Sound campus.Un Read More...

Puget Sound Energy to Use Solar From New Farm

Puget Sound Energy’s Green Direct program, which allows large commercial and governmental participants the ability to purchase 100% of their energy from local renewable energy resources, will be using resources from the new Lund Hill solar farm in Klickitat County, Washington, the state’ Read More...

Puget Sound Energy Announces Long-Term Hydropower Contract

Puget Sound Energy (PSE) and Chelan County Public Utility District (PUD) are joining forces to power Puget with renewable hydropower in the long term. This 20-year contract gives Puget the environmentally friendly infrastructure to achieve future renewable energy goals and flexibly fulfill Washingto Read More...

Puget Sound Energy Develops Wind Farm

Puget Sound Energy (PSE) announced it is developing the Beaver Creek wind farm, a utility-scale wind project that will be located on the high plains in Stillwater County, Montana.Since 2019, PSE has added more than 1,000 MW of renewable nameplate capacity to its system; the Beaver Creek wind farm is Read More...