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Wednesday, September 26 stories

6:35 a.m.
Energy Transition
VH Global sells six Rio solar parks, buyer undisclosed
Without a buyer, price, or capacity, the Brazilian solar sale cannot be benchmarked.
5:57 a.m.
Energy Transition
RenewableUK's £3bn offshore wind claim skips the math
The fiscal pitch for the 2030 target could move a treasury, if the calculation ever shows up.
5:51 a.m.
Energy Transition
Gulermak's Polish solar financing omits the terms
A 62.7-MW portfolio clears a milestone, but the public record omits lender, facility size, and cost of capital.
4:29 a.m.
Transport & public-private
Washington elbows toward the front of the P3 pipeline
A Senate financing bill and USDOT's Union Station 'mirror' put the next US P3 test in federal hands.
4:21 a.m.
Energy Transition
Yellow Door closes financing on 49-MWp South African solar park
A 49-MWp financial close shows project capital still clears in South Africa even when the announcement withholds the terms that would make it meaningful.
12:33 a.m.
Energy Transition
Waroona hybrid nears construction with no offtake in sight
Frontier is readying an Australian solar-battery project, but the coverage omits capacity, storage duration, offtake, and financing—those omissions are the story.

Tuesday, September 133 stories

6:38 p.m.
Energy Transition
Record battery quarter leaves the offtake contracts unwritten
The U.S. added more grid batteries last quarter than in any previous quarter, but the offtake agreements to pay for them are still missing.
3:45 p.m.
Energy Transition
Fervo-Google pact prices next-gen geothermal as infrastructure
A nearly 400-MW offtake gives enhanced geothermal a revenue floor — and a test of whether hyperscaler contracts can underwrite the subsurface.
1:16 p.m.
Data centers & fiber
Vietnam's cable faults test the redundancy bet
Four of six subsea cables down at once is the latest multi-cable failure to hit Vietnam, and a warning for anyone pricing connectivity as a diversified asset.
12:41 p.m.
Data centers & fiber
Floating wind and GPUs: the 800kW test of gridless AI
Exascale Labs and EnergyBank plan to put an 800kW modular data center on a Norwegian wind turbine, betting that power delivery, not chip supply, is now the scarce input in AI infrastructure.
12:33 p.m.
Energy Transition
Battery and inverter supply chains face a new policy gate
BloombergNEF expects the Aug. 26 executive order and Treasury's FEOC guidance to delay or cancel storage projects, adding policy risk to a pipeline already carrying merchant risk.
12:28 p.m.
Data centers & fiber
Flag's second act: selling the AI on-ramp
The bankrupt carrier rebuilt under 3i Infrastructure is betting its second act on landing stations and modular data centers, not just 66,000 km of fiber, to anchor AI-era connectivity.
12:28 p.m.
Data centers & fiber
AWS clears Irish planning hurdle for its own Atlantic cable
The West Cork landing station for Fastnet survived a local appeal, but seabed consent and grid connection still control the schedule.
12:19 p.m.
Energy Transition
DayOne's Selangor MOU books 1.5GW of power before the campus breaks ground
The non-binding TNB deal adds on-site generation and battery storage to a project that has not closed its land purchase.
12:05 p.m.
Energy Transition
KPI Green lands 76.6-MW Gujarat hybrid LOI
The letter of intent gives the project a place in the development pipeline; the PPA that would give it a price has yet to appear.
12:00 p.m.
Energy Transition
MISO carves out data centers as a new load class
A 25 MW IT threshold creates a computational load class, letting the grid operator aim reliability requirements specifically at data centers.
11:59 a.m.
Energy Transition
Record 20.2 GWh battery quarter leaves capital stack unstated
The deployment record is real, but the project names and offtake terms that would make it an infrastructure proof are absent.
11:22 a.m.
Data centers & fiber
Green Mountain signs unnamed neocloud to 14MW in Romford
Green Mountain fills LON-East's new capacity with an unnamed neocloud, testing whether East London can attract AI demand.
11:22 a.m.
Energy Transition
California drops funding for its biggest VPP
California's budget leaves Demand Side Grid Support without new money — a reminder that even successful programs are political line items.
10:38 a.m.
Energy Transition
Waaree's $37m Arizona bet on onshore solar
A small factory-floor outlay points to where solar's scarce assets now sit.
10:30 a.m.
Fundraising
Odyssey's $74M EM Renewables Raise Tests Scale
A small vehicle in a thin lane raises the question of whether it is a seed or a ceiling for emerging-market renewables financing.
10:00 a.m.
Data centers & fiber
Charter CFO joins Blackstone-Google TPU venture
The hire of a cable-industry finance chief shows the neocloud is being built to utility specs, with the balance sheet leading the chips.
9:58 a.m.
Data centers & fiber
Jazz's 1,000 live 5G sites set up a 2,500-site test
The Veon-owned operator's year-end expansion target will test whether its 5G buildout can move past the radio layer.
9:58 a.m.
Data centers & fiber
Maxis fiber deal doubles Melaka tower backhaul coverage
The RM30 million project moves Melaka's mobile network from microwave to fiber and hands Maxis a wholesale product it can sell to every operator in the state.
9:55 a.m.
Fundraising
Aligned Climate targets $500m solar-storage fund
A number and a mandate, with no vehicle, anchor, or first-close date, leaves the market nothing to price.
9:55 a.m.
Energy Transition
TEAL's Spanish platform launch carries no capacity figures
A platform launch with no capacity, sites, or offtake terms is the unpriced energy deal in its purest form.
9:53 a.m.
Energy Transition
Helsinki heat-reuse deal gives AI buildout a utility backstop
OnZero's agreement with Helen prices data center waste heat as a utility product, a step toward making merchant AI capacity bankable.
9:49 a.m.
Data centers & fiber
Lambda's $1B short-term debt leans on Microsoft's lease
The private placement is underwritten by Microsoft's lease payments, not Lambda's merchant demand.
9:09 a.m.
Energy Transition
France's second hydrogen auction is price discovery
The 250-MW round is small capacity but a real benchmark for a sector that has been living on unpriced announcements.
9:09 a.m.
Energy Transition
Ørsted's 920-MW buildout lands with the terms still in shadow
Construction is real; the missing offtake detail is the sector's recurrent tell.
8:02 a.m.
The Wrap
Industrial power buyers stop waiting for the grid
Captive solar, municipal PPAs, and repowered wind are shifting the scarcity premium from grid position to self-supply capability.
7:34 a.m.
Energy Transition
Project Cayman has a land deal, not an offtake
A 2.88GW gas-and-battery campus in southern Louisiana has a site and a public-meetings calendar; the data center customer that would pay for it has yet to sign.
6:55 a.m.
Energy Transition
Miners become their own grid as DRC hybrid starts
A hybrid plant's baseload supply to a DRC copper miner signals the rise of captive power, though key terms remain undisclosed.
6:53 a.m.
Energy Transition
Brookfield's Solarity buys 5.2 MWp of Chilean C&I solar
A routine C&I buy in Chile shows distributed solar still transacts in human-scale increments while the headlines chase gigawatts.
6:50 a.m.
Energy Transition
Genesis' US$74m solar FID is a queue position play
The FID buys a place in the connection queue; the offtake question decides what it is worth.
5:13 a.m.
Energy Transition
ERG repowers France, trades grid rights
The 22.5-MW start-up shows the template that adds capacity without joining the interconnection queue.
5:11 a.m.
Energy Transition
China's solar capacity overtakes coal for the first time
The milestone puts China's solar fleet ahead of coal; grid constraints will decide what that capacity is worth.
4:28 a.m.
Energy Transition
Australia's $76m solar grant funds the old bottleneck
A public R&D bet on solar economics lands just as the industry's scarce asset shifts from panel cost to the permission to connect.
4:28 a.m.
Energy Transition
Cloudberry closes Orron's Nordic platform buy
A Nordic platform changes hands as the transition premium moves downstream to grid rights and contracted revenue.

Monday, August 311 story

11:29 a.m.
Energy Transition
Cape Town's 70 MW solar PPA sidesteps Eskom
The capacity is modest; the precedent is not.