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An $800 clue in a Y Combinator category on Tuesday's 'Jeopardy!' pointed to Everett-based Helion: the company says it will build the first power plant using fusion, and three-day champion Greg Monson supplied the right question. CEO David Kirtley shared the moment on LinkedIn, writing that clean, safe, reliable power is getting a little more mainstream.
Everett Post
Zap Energy, the Everett-based fusion company, secured U.S. Department of Energy approval for two capacitor development milestones; the devices store and release electricity in sub-second bursts to drive fusion fuel into the extreme conditions needed for power generation. Its 35-kilovolt actively cooled capacitor is rated for 6 billion pulses at 10 hertz, against roughly 100,000 pulses for typical commercial units, and a 2.8-pound prototype held capacitance within 0.25 percent across hundreds of cycles at 8 kilovolts and over 7,000 amps. Design, manufacturing, and testing were done at the company's Everett headquarters.
Lynnwood Times
Everett and Snohomish County PUD leaders cut the ribbon September 19 on El Sol al Alcance de tus Manos, a 400-kilowatt community solar array and public-art installation on 1.75 acres next to Walter E. Hall Park on Casino Road in south Everett. The roughly $2.5 million project, over 80 percent covered by grants and tax credits including $861,814 from the state Clean Energy Fund, generates enough electricity for about 30 homes; revenue from its power goes to the PUD's Community Energy Fund, which has provided over $40,000 in bill assistance to about 200 families.
Boro Software
Boro Software, an Everett software company, took Kumi (組) from idea to a demoable MVP and toolkit in six weeks, crediting AI coding agents for the pace. The product is a ground-up rewrite of TAK (Team Action Kit) server concepts, built to serve markets beyond TAK's traditional military and law-enforcement users.
Lynnwood Times
Helion, the Everett-based fusion company, has grown from 80 to 800 employees over four years and opened a downtown Seattle office September 8 for its business team. Its Orion facility under construction in Malaga, Chelan County is designed to deliver at least 50 megawatts of electricity beginning in 2028 under a 2023 power purchase agreement with Microsoft; the company has raised over $1.5 billion and was valued at $15.5 billion after a $465 million round this year.
The Daily Herald
Snohomish County PUD will hold a ribbon-cutting September 19 for its $2.5 million community solar facility at Walter E. Hall Park on Casino Road in south Everett, largely paid for by state grants. The array produces about 400,000 kilowatt hours a year and has operated since December 2024; power-sale revenue, about $40,000 so far, goes to the PUD's Community Energy Fund for bill assistance.
Everett Post
Greater Everett Chamber of Commerce CEO Wendy Poischbeg reports that aerospace and defense companies at the Farnborough Air Show stressed human workers stay essential as AI spreads through aviation. The piece cites a Gallup poll finding 47 percent of adults aged 18 to 29 believe AI does more harm than good, up from 36 percent in 2025, and points to training programs at Paine Field, AM-TEC, and WSU Everett.
Boro Software
Everett-based Boro Software shipped Shopboard, a job tracker for small machine shops: operators log Start and Done on a floor tablet, and the office gets a live board, a digital traveler per job, and reports on late jobs and actual costs. The company credits agentic development for the delivery speed and is recruiting a small group of founding shops to run it on live work at discounted pricing.
Boro Software
Boro Software's post-mortem on porting freediag, roughly 30,000 lines of C, to Rust in a week with Claude Code agents on a 20x Max plan: the Rust build was validated against the C executable's replay harnesses rather than real cars, and the ported source is public under the original license.
Boro Software
Everett's Boro Software tunes its Claude Code agent workflow on freediag, an open-source OBD-II diagnostics tool in aging C: tickets get labeled by difficulty and model, weaker models' work is adversarially reviewed by stronger ones, and concurrent agents are capped at 4 to 6 to control cost.