Clean Technology Cluster

This cluster (formerly known as Environment & Alternative Energy) includes a smaller number of specific industry components, although they span a number of industry sectors. The primary components of this cluster include manufacturing services, consultant services, and some utility functions. This cluster exceeds the average U.S. employment concentration ratio by 30 percent.

2010 Action Items

Action Initiative	Action Initiative Area	Organization
Develop a comprehensive clean energy strategy for Washington and a legislative proposal for the 2011 session that improves our state's competitiveness for the clean technology industry.	Clean Technology	Clean Energy Leadership Council / Washington State Department of Commerce / Washington Clean Technology Alliance
Grow the Washington Clean Technology Alliance to 60 companies.	Clean Technology	Washington Clean Technology Alliance

What’s New:
Clean Tech Cluster Analysis Released
The Clean Tech Cluster Analysis Update for the Puget Sound Region report was commissioned to provide more accurate and timely information about the size and scope of the cluster in our region, as well as the specific industries within the cluster, its strengths and its potential for growth. The report serves as a platform from which the region can move into more comparative analysis, evaluation, and development of a strategy to maximize competitive advantage. The report includes an analysis of the clean tech economy and venture capital investment trends and provides a brief overview of the policy environment and the region’s clean tech assets and opportunities.

WCTA and Partners Launch evergreenfilm.org
On November 20, the Washington Clean Technology Alliance premiered Evergreen: The Washington Clean Tech Story to a packed house at SIFF Cinema, McCaw Hall in Seattle. Simultaneously, the Evergreen Production Team launched the companion website - evergreenfilm.org, an online video archive of footage and interviews with Washington's clean tech leaders. It features highlights of over forty conversations with clean tech leaders in Washington state including the Governor, mayors, entrepreneurs and green collar workers, as well as an extended visit with an underdog presidential candidate who came to "the other Washington" to share a vision of a clean tech future. evergreenfilm.org is where the images, ideas, strategies and power of clean tech are coming to life.

Evergreen is a joint production of the Washington Clean Technology Alliance and Seattle's More Dust Than Digital Films.

Washington Clean Technology Alliance
An important outgrowth of the Prosperity Partnership’s work in the clean technology cluster has been the creation of the first-ever state wide clean technology industry association, the Washington Clean Technology Alliance. This organization provides networking and advocacy for the hundreds of clean technology companies and suppliers in our state, and helps to support the sustainable growth and development of this vital cluster in our region. For more information, visit www.wacleantech.org.

Cluster Strategy Development Background
In 2005, to target its work in supporting the clean technology cluster, the Prosperity Partnership formed a Clean Technology Cluster Strategy Development Working Group tasked with identifying specific action initiatives to be implemented by 2010. A special thanks goes to the co-chairs of that working group:

   Denis Hayes, President & CEO
   Bullitt Foundation
   www.bullitt.org

   Kathy Lombardo, NW Regional Manager and Sr Vice President
   CH2M Hill
   www.ch2m.com

   Garry Struthers, President
   Garry Struthers & Associates
   www.gsassoc-inc.com

The full Clean Technology industry cluster strategy can be found starting on page 38 of the Prosperity Partnership's Regional Economic Strategy.


Contact
For more information, contact Joan Chen, jchen@psrc.org, 206-389-2889