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Amazon signs 36MW Shetland wind PPA with Statkraft for 2030 delivery
The deal adds a Scottish onshore wind asset to a UK programme Amazon counts at more than 50 agreements, with no price or contract length disclosed.
KPI Green to acquire 507.9 MW of operating wind farms in India, report says
The Renewables Now item names no seller, price, structure or number of farms, and does not say whether a signed agreement is in place.
Energy Vault is buying Goshe and secures up to $40M in S2G credit
Goshe's leadership and development teams will join the storage developer, which says the credit backs development, construction and operation of the acquired portfolio.
US nuclear regulator proposes “wholesale revision” of plant rules
Canary Media reports the proposal would cut reporting requirements for nonemergency events and remove an expiration date on standard design approvals.
ACP and Wood Mackenzie project 27% growth in commercial energy storage
Average U.S. storage duration rose to 3.5 hours from 2.8 as second-quarter commercial-property installations fell to 48 MW after an incentive-driven first quarter in California.
Rezolv closes funding for 1.3-GWp Dama Solar in Romania
Renewables Now reports the closing but no lender, sum or offtake.
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Energy Vault wins New South Wales approval for 1-GWh battery project
Renewables Now reports the state sign-off on the storage project, and the coverage names no offtaker, capex or commissioning date.
SPP's Western adequacy stop-gap draws protests, including from its own market monitor
WAPA, Basin Electric and Guzman Energy seek changes to the Sept. 4 proposal, which would run until mandatory adequacy rules take effect on June 1, 2027.
New York awards 950 MW of batteries in first bulk storage round
NYSERDA says the first bulk storage round more than doubles all utility-scale storage awarded, contracted and installed in the state, and payments begin only once projects run.
Subsea Micropiles invests GBP 5m in Scottish floating wind supply chain
The report names a company, country and GBP 5m sum, but not the site, counterparty or structure of the investment.
Net Zero Atlantic to share offshore wind expertise with unnamed European groups
The Renewables Now headline does not identify the European participants or describe what the arrangement covers.
Navaris orders Nordex turbines for a 42 MW German wind project
The 29 September order is the latest Navaris disclosure in Germany to name megawatts without a price.
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New York's 1GW storage contract round tests a 2040 fossil-free mandate
Canary Media reports scant progress toward the 2040 fossil-free target and puts a 1GW storage contract round at the center of whether that changes.
Fervo Energy begins selling power from Cape Station's initial 33-MW unit
Canary Media reports the Utah project is the first utility-scale next-generation geothermal plant to sell power; Google has contracted 396 megawatts at the site.
CGN commissions a 2-GW offshore wind farm in China using 18-MW turbines
Renewables Now reports the commissioning; at 2,000 MW and 18 MW a machine, a uniform array would work out to roughly 111 turbines.
Iberdrola to acquire Contigo Energia's Spanish power retail business
Renewables Now names the buyer, seller and asset but reports no purchase price, customer count or expected close.
Saint-Gobain signs 60 GWh-a-year UK power deal with TotalEnergies
The announcement omits price, contract length and the generating asset, so the same 60 GWh could be financing for new build or a hedge on existing output.
Lirion Power is acquiring a 77-MW Irish wind portfolio from GIP
Renewables Now names buyer, seller and capacity, but no purchase price, offtake counterparty or completion date
ACEN sells 10% of 250-MW Indian solar project without naming buyer or price
The Renewables Now report names neither buyer nor valuation, leaving the implied price per megawatt unstated.
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Rural America holds the megawatts; the counties hold the veto
An 87% rural generation share turns county boards and interconnection dockets, not land, into the binding constraint on the next tranche of clean capacity.
Low Carbon's 500-MW Oxfordshire plan arrives without a buyer
A second Low Carbon headline in a month carries capacity and a county but no counterparty, which makes it a financing document before it is an infrastructure one.
FERC keeps Oklo's 750-MW Virginia project out of PJM's queue
A procedural rejection leaves Oklo's three-technology plant at least 18 months behind and hands five similar complaints the same reasoning.
Vattenfall names 429 MW in England, and little else
The English portfolio arrives with no site, no consent status and no counterparty, extending a pattern that turns sector milestones into financing hooks rather than infrastructure proofs.
ERG puts Glencore on the record and withholds the price
A named buyer does the underwriting work in Polish wind, and the economics stay unpublished.
A $33m Colombian solar check arrives without a stake or a pipeline
Finnfund and Proparco have made public the size of their Erco commitment and none of the terms a lender or underwriter could act on.
First power proves the drill; the 900MW is still a claim
Google signed 396MW before Cape Station produced a kilowatt, making the January 2027 commissioning date the number that carries Fervo's valuation.
Queensland's Bungaban approval lands without a number, an owner or an offtake
The Bungaban sign-off clears one gate and leaves the two that price the asset, connection and offtake, unanswered.
DOE's $1.9 billion buys grid speed, not new corridors
The SPARK package funds conductors and grid-enhancing technology on lines that already exist, moving the marginal federal transmission dollar off greenfield corridors and onto assets the data center buildout can actually schedule.
Oyster names a steelmaker for its 48-MWp park and leaves the rest blank
An industrial offtaker makes the missing tariff a private term. The connection point is what prices the plant.
Websol's 4-GW West Bengal land deal arrives without the numbers
A land title is the cheapest milestone in a solar factory, and the coverage attaches no capex, no offtake and no date to the 4 GW.
Nexgen drops 160 MW of Philippine wind, unexplained
A capacity figure and a country, with nothing attached that would let anyone price either one.
CIB prices the loan and leaves the mine unnamed
A USD 14.4m loan to a Canadian gold mine arrives with a lender and two technologies, but no project size, owner, or power price.
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A $1.9B down payment on grid capacity
The federal government is funding the cheapest capacity available—more throughput from existing lines—but 31 projects won't resolve the grid's binding constraint.
Exelon turns a venture check into grid-planning procurement
Exelon deploys Optioneer across five states, turning a venture check into first call on transmission planning and a proving ground for Continuum.
DOE's $1.9 billion buys grid capacity on lines already permitted
Thirty-one projects add 23 gigawatts without a single new right-of-way, which is a price signal to every greenfield corridor sponsor still counting on federal backing.
Small solar's best argument on the Hill is local consent
Edward Yim's case for preserving distributed clean-energy credits is really a permitting argument, and it's the one Congress can most cheaply ignore.
Qair lands a 15-year offtaker; the price column stays blank
A Polish telecom's 15-year offtake is the underwriting fact Qair's September announcements never delivered, even with price and capacity still blank.
Hep takes a 35.7-MWp German solar project into construction
The milestone names the capacity and country; the owner, the offtake, and the price stay off the page.
Woodway is selling a 2028 delivery date, not molecules
The offtaker is unnamed and no term is disclosed, which is the point: what a data center buys when the queue runs to the 2030s is time, and it is priced in the dark.
Pacifico's 1.3-GW Vietnam survey licence prices only the option
The announcement names no offtaker, connection right, or sponsor, leaving the 1.3-GW figure to be weighted as an option.