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Funded in part through a Contract with the U.S. Small Business Administration
Join the WECAN Cluster!
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WECAN, Washington Energy: Carbon Advancement Network, is led by the CleanTech Alliance and Momentum – each are experienced providers of entrepreneur education and support, and passionate about the clean technology sector.
WECAN will engage partners to strengthen the carbon capture, utilization, sequestration, carbon dioxide removal, and carbon materials ecosystem.
WECAN is working to break down industry-identified barriers and solve joint challenges by providing:
Small Business Support Services
- Mentoring
- Customer Discovery/Matching
- Export Readiness Coaching
- Policymaker and Community Engagement Training
- State and Federal Grant Writing Assistance
- Lifecycle Analysis Support
- Support for Underserved Business Owners
Industry Projects
- Advisory Board
- Carbon Purchasers Alliance
- Joint Innovation Projects
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Save the Date
April 22nd 12:00pm-1:00pm
Virtual
Stay tuned for more details and an agenda...
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WECAN is focused on breaking down industry-identified barriers for carbon focused businesses and accelerating project development and technology adoption in Washington State and beyond. We want industry expertise to advise our direction.
We are currently building WECAN’s advisory board and are holding our first meeting this spring. If you are interested in applying for the advisory board or educating the advisory board on your specific needs please contact WECAN Program Manager, Tyler LeRoy at tyler@cleantechalliance.org.
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Join the MAGIC:
Materials Alliance Group for Industrial Carbon
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Together WECAN do MAGIC!
creating physical products out thin air
The Materials Alliance Group for Industrial Carbon, MAGIC, is a board of carbon materials purchasers building a global virtual marketplace.
Join the MAGIC and determine the direction and goals of the Materials Alliance by sharing your industry knowledge.
Working Groups Include:
- CO2 Gas and Physical Forms of Carbon (food supply, building materials, and more)
- Domestic Supply Chain / Energy Independence
- R&D and Market Development
- and more...
If you are interested in WECAN and MAGIC, please contact tyler@cleantechalliance.org and fill out our WECAN survey
| | Homeostasis Funding Announcement | | Image of the Lombardi Reactor provided by Homeostasis | | Homeostasis has secured $1.2M in pre-seed funding to advance its aqueous mineralization capture technology, which extracts carbon from the air and converts it into graphite. In 2026, the company plans to launch pilot project deployments. Looking ahead, Homeostasis aims to market its technology to industrial emitters. The resulting graphite has the potential to support U.S. supply chain demands for this critical material, which is essential in batteries, nuclear power plants, and other key industries. | | Puget Sound Energy x Modern Hydrogen | | |
Puget Sound Energy and Modern Hydrogen begin a strategic partnership to answer joint problems in decarbonization! The Clean Energy Transformation Act requires Washington utilities to meet the ambitious goal of 100% clean energy by 2045. To tackle this challenge Puget Sound is partnering with Modern Hydrogen to decarbonize difficult to abate sectors like municipal transit and industrial manufacturing. Modern Hydrogen's innovative tech decarbonizes at the meter for industrial and commercial greenhouse gas emitters using distributed methane pyrolysis technology. This mutually beneficial partnership allows Modern Hydrogen to quickly scale up their production and benefit from Puget Sound's established natural gas system.
Read more about Modern Hydrogen's technology and their connection with PSE.
| | Emissol's Call for Connections | | |
Emissol, a cleantech firm, uses its expertise in Direct Air Capture (DAC) of CO2 to accelerate Africa's first DAC facility, Octavia Carbon‘s Project Hummingbird. Octavia is a subsidiary of Octavia Holding, Wilmington, Delaware.
Emissol has carbon removal technology, expertise and science-based, high-fidelity models that cut the costs of traditionally expensive R&D, engineering and DAC systems, reducing DAC cycle time and substantially downsizing the overall DAC space. Octavia Carbon is now pairing Emissol's expertise with Kenya's geothermal power and unique geology to create a cleaner, more efficient DAC system. In doing so, Octavia Carbon uses Kenya's abundant geothermal energy to power its DAC system and permanently capture and store CO2 in porous basaltic rocks in Kenya's Rift Valley. Octavia Carbon's cofounder and CEO, Martin Freimüller, says, "Working with Emissol has catalyzed our R&D process in maturing and optimizing our contactor-based DAC for deployment in our pilot project. By leveraging their expertise and integrating these advancements with Kenya's geothermal energy resources, we are poised to deploy the world's most cost-effective DAC technology here in Kenya."
Emissol provides its technology, expertise and models to help DAC and environmental companies solve specific engineering challenges in chemical reactions, processes, heat and mass transfer and thermal analysis as well as providing their technology that cuts costs and space in carbon removal. If any of this is of interest to you, Emissol is actively looking for connections and collaborations! Please take a look at Emissol's website and contact Dr. Mansour Masoudi at mansour@emissol.com with questions or comments.
| | We want to highlight the important work of our small business members and industry partners! To be included in our newsletter please email Program Coordinator, Teresa Gonzalez, teresa@cleantechalliance.org with your success story, carbon tech news, or WECAN experience! | | |
June 25-26th 2025
NRG Center, Houston, Texas, USA
The event will bring together more than 250 international speakers and over 1,500 delegates to debate and discuss the latest technologies and solutions, strategies, innovations, current and future regulations, by-products and strategies for captured CO2 and the latest and next-generation techniques and models to help foster a truly sustainable, cost-effective and resource-efficient CCUS sector.
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September 23-25th 2025
Edmonton Convention Center
Carbon Capture Canada is the only Pan-Canadian national convention showcasing Canada’s incredible and almost untapped opportunity for carbon capture and underground storage innovation, technology and destination for global investment.
Position your organization to take advantage of this dynamic market by being a part of Canada’s only dedicated Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage convention.
Meet key industry players over three days of the convention, with a two-day business conference, expanded tradeshow floor with all major players, followed by an unmissable opportunity to take a tour across actual CCUS projects and explore them in-person.
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