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Using Ice Slush to Store Energy

Startup Applied Exergy is using an Oregon BEST Commercialization Grant to advance its grid-scale energy storage technology that uses ice and heat to store and release energy.

Large Wind Tunnel Helps Industry

Oregon BEST researcher Raúl Cal (left) and students set up the 17-ft. test section of a massive wind tunnel that fills the Wind Energy & Turbulence Research Lab at PSU.

The Impact of Green Roofs

An Oregon BEST Commercialization Grant is helping a Portland company develop a tool engineers and architects can use to incorporate green roofs for stormwater mitigation.

Innovating Better Windows

Tapping Oregon BEST expertise, equipment, and a Commercialization Grant, Portland startup Indow Windows has innovated a low-cost solution to window inserts.

Solar Energy Innovation

Solar energy companies are lining up at an Oregon BEST lab where a new tool developed by an Oregon company slashes solar cell test time from five minutes to a single second.

Creating Rural Jobs for Oregon One "Green" Block at a Time

Tom van Denand of ShelterWorks, Ltd.What happens when you combine recycled wood pallets, a passionate entrepreneur working out of a shuttered lumber mill in rural Oregon, a dash of cement, and an Oregon BEST researcher who runs a seismic research lab in downtown Portland that is part of our growing network of shared-user research facilities?

First: a green building construction product that uses fewer resources and lowers energy costs.

And second: more sustainable jobs for Oregonians.

Read more about this industry-univeristy collaboration that's turning leftover pallets into 'green' blocks.

Gov. John KitzhaberOregon Governor Talks "Economic Reinvention"

At Oregon BEST FEST '12, Gov. John Kitzhaber gave an inspiring speech about Oregon's "Economic Reinvention" and Oregon BEST's role in that. He said the conference theme "Rising to the Challenge" reminds us that "as a state and region, we have what it takes to see this reinvention through, starting with our work in the clean economy field, a growing sector that already employs more than 500,000 people along the West Coast and is predicted to triple in size to $147 billion by 2020." More.