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Alight buys a 2-GW Swedish solar pipeline, price undisclosed
A Renewables Now report names the buyer and capacity but omits the seller, project list, grid position, and financing terms.
NZ Clean and Mercury seal PPA for 118-MW New Zealand solar-storage park
The announcement names the park's capacity and its offtaker but gives no location, price, or contract term.
NexGen seals Philippine solar off-take with Marubeni affiliate
Renewables Now names NexGen and a Marubeni affiliate but not the signing entity, capacity, price or tenor.
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Senate permitting bill targets high-voltage lines as Dec. 11 deadline nears
Canary Media reports the legislation could cut electricity costs by billions of dollars and improve reliability over the coming decade if Congress passes it.
Colorado hospital weighs renewables-and-battery system that may qualify for 48E credits
Alliant's Matthew Noll estimates the $65 million addition could yield $4 million to $8 million in credits, which he says trade at 85 to 93 cents on the dollar.
NYPA takes majority stake in a solar P3, P3 Bulletin reports
The roundup entry names no project, capacity, site or price, and it is the only item stating a share of ownership.
FERC rejects PJM's backstop cost allocation, leaving the 6.8 GW auction unscheduled
PJM had planned to take offers from Sept. 30 through Oct. 21 for capacity covering a shortfall driven largely by data center demand forecasts.
Ørsted starts construction on 200-MW Blackwater Solar without disclosing an offtake
No capital cost, lender, tax-equity participant or financial-close date has been disclosed, leaving the project's financing terms unknown.
Fluor and JGC each take $7.5bn in LNG Canada's phase two
The same 50/50 partners will add two trains and a storage tank, doubling the Kitimat site's capacity to about 28 million tonnes a year.
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.