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Gurin secures Korean solar retail licences for 379 MW

The licences put the platform at the meter, but the economics behind the capacity are still unwritten.

Polish port of Darlowo declared ready for wind farm servicing

The readiness claim comes with no tenant, cost, or owner attached.

Pathfinder wins UK planning consent for 40-MW solar-plus-battery park

A planning nod clears Pathfinder's 40-MW UK solar-plus-battery park for construction. The undisclosed battery size will set its value.

NextEra's $3.3bn gas buildout is a state-backed bet on data center power

The agreements put U.S. and Japanese government capital behind NextEra's hub model, shifting early-stage cost onto large-load customers.

California data center bills advance as lawmakers target rates and pollution

Sacramento adds legislative risk to the data center site-selection math.

Brookfield, CDPQ close $6.5bn Boralex buyout

A completed renewable-infrastructure deal gives clean-energy take-privates a fresh benchmark.

AECOM's record backlog meets a $337 million charge

The engineering firm's loss shows where AI infrastructure risk lives: construction, not demand.

GIP V puts BlackRock back atop the infrastructure table

Infrastructure Investor's 2026 II 100 resets the five-year fundraising scoreboard with a $200bn rebound and a familiar name at No. 1.

EBRD weighs senior debt for Scatec's 900-MW Egypt wind project

A multilateral mandate would anchor the project's financing, a sign that commercial lenders have yet to commit.

Dimension Energy secures $857 million for U.S. distributed solar

The $857 million raise arrives as infrastructure capital chases power capacity everywhere, but the funding's structure remains undisclosed.

Sosteneo's Fund II debuts with a German wind repowering platform

The Generali Investments arm puts Fund II's first investment into eleven German wind projects, with 40 percent of capacity already generating cash flow.

Infrastructure Investor maps 4,000-plus LPs, GPs and funds

The database pairs who is raising infrastructure capital with who may write the check.

FAA closes out airport grant program with $870M round

The final $870M installment completes the $2.89B fiscal 2026 allocation as the IIJA's five-year authorization winds down.

Equinix signs 11.5MW rooftop vPPA with Flo Energy in Singapore

A fourth Singapore PPA brings Equinix's contracted renewable capacity to 215MW, all expected online in 2028.

Egypt lays foundation for first battery storage factory

The report names no capacity, investor, or timetable, leaving the supply-chain question open.

L&T to host Nvidia cluster for Together AI in Chennai

Companies call the 10,000-GPU deployment India's largest single-cluster AI infrastructure, with a 250MW first phase.

Enel Chile breaks ground on 100-MW Finis Terrae battery

The 100-MW Finis Terrae battery is under construction in Chile. The announcement skips cost, duration, and offtake — the details that make a storage asset investable.

Gramercy sells its financial backbone before it has a route

Gramercy Networks wants trading firms to pre-order capacity on a five-city network before construction begins, letting demand set the route.

Alibaba Cloud opens third South Korea data center

The new site lands just over a year after the second, deepening Alibaba's Korean footprint under a $53bn global buildout.

Green hydrogen project at Heide Refinery called off

A large German green hydrogen project is dead, and the report of its cancellation carries no figures to size the loss.

Core Scientific closes Polaris deal, expands Muskogee campus to 1.5GW

The $444 million Polaris acquisition delivers 440MW of grid power and 40 acres, letting Core Scientific push its Oklahoma campus to 1.5GW.

EDP Renewables completes 92-MW Sandrini battery storage in California

The plant is online. The public record of it is a headline.

Saxon-NTER solar glass JV is known only by its headline

Renewables Now's headline pairs Saxon and NTER with two regions; the material has nothing else.

PowerBank reacquires 13.9-MW New York solar portfolio for $2.4m

A round-trip deal with a disclosed price and no disclosed past.

Utilities promise ratepayer protection to answer data-center demand

Utility Dive's Q2 earnings-call roundup shows executives tying project execution to ratepayer protections as midterm politics close in on data centers.

TBC family office files for 300MW data center campus in Northumberland

A UK joint family office has requested a screening opinion for a potential 300MW data center campus, with a second project listed in Didcot.

P2X Solutions e-methane headline names a buyer, not a contract

Renewables Now's headline names a buyer; the terms stay out of view.

Tencent Cloud's Johor region lands next to Alibaba

Two availability zones go live this week in southern Malaysia, putting Tencent in the same state Alibaba chose for its June launch.

ABB builds ultracapacitor storage for Ireland's data-center grid rule

A modular behind-the-meter platform pairs ultracapacitors with grid-forming controls to keep Irish data centers connected through fault events as EirGrid's MPID345 code takes shape.

Nigeria to start deploying 3,700 rural towers in October

A World Bank-backed state program will start deploying more than 3,700 telecom towers in October. The goal is mobile coverage for more than 20 million Nigerians.

Koray GYO brings Turkish capital to US data center land

The Turkish REIT is scouting Texas and Louisiana, a new cross-border entrant to the US data center buildout.

CVC DIF takes majority stake in Frankfurt colocation operator

CVC DIF's Value Add IV is buying Firstcolo, whose Frankfurt sites are nearly full, plus a 24MW development due in 2027. The founders stay on to build a German platform.

Renewables Now's pitch carries no industry detail

The trade wire's promotional extract is a product menu, not a dispatch, and a poor test of its reporting.

AtkinsRealis starts US nuclear reactor licensing process

A US filing starts the clock on the regulatory path project finance needs before committing capital.

Data centers have money and power. They lack permission.

The AI buildout is financing dedicated power plants and taking balance-sheet stakes in data centers. Seven in ten Americans now oppose a local project.

ISO-NE asks FERC to add a review step for asset-condition transmission work

A filing would add a grid-operator checkpoint to the transmission spending New England's ratepayer advocates have long targeted.

Sunrun, Voltus turn home batteries into AI data center capacity

A distributed-energy pact lets hyperscaler-backed data center developers bring residential capacity to PJM and MISO interconnections.

A stalled I-77 P3 reprices political risk for transport deals

North Carolina's stalled I-77 South Express Lanes P3 is raising the price of political risk for the next generation of transport concessions.

DayOne deploys Singapore’s first biological data center prototype

A 20-unit Cortical Labs CL1 system now runs at NUS Medicine, putting lab-grown neurons on the path from research to commercial infrastructure.

Engie's three-party Texas deal adds a layer between QTS and the grid

Renewables Now reports the power deal but does not name the third counterparty. That missing name is the detail to watch.

Two California data center bills advance despite industry pushback

State lawmakers move to keep the AI buildout from raising utility rates and pollution.

Actis buys a Polish wind base to seed a 1.5GW regional platform

A CVC DIF sale leaves Actis with CfD-backed turbines and grid connections for adding solar and storage.

DOE lends $490M to Pattern Energy for Puerto Rico battery

Federal capital is backing a Puerto Rico battery even as the administration cuts other clean-energy funding in the territory.

California approves Charter-Cox merger with $305 million in conditions

California's approval of the Charter-Cox merger comes with $305 million in required investments and a five-year affordability commitment.

Starlink goes live in Vietnam and signs a launch deal with VinSpace

Starlink switches on in Vietnam as its sixth Southeast Asian market, under a 600,000-subscriber cap and a 2030 sunset. The VinSpace launch deal looks past the trial.

CVC DIF takes majority stake in German colocation operator Firstcolo

The infrastructure fund's purchase lands alongside a Frankfurt data-center exit, pointing to mid-market asset rotation.

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners raises $3bn for second growth markets strategy

With a fund three times the size of the first, the strategy's deployment discipline is the real test.

Squadron closes US$1.91bn refinancing of Australian wind assets

For infrastructure investors, the US$1.91bn refinancing is a fresh marker for pricing Australian wind debt.

Axe Compute puts 49% stake in Duos' 55MW build

The neocloud is buying ownership of the data centers, not just renting capacity.

CalSTRS anchors Nuveen's infrastructure credit strategy with up to $2 billion

The California teachers pension fund is anchoring Nuveen's Energy Infrastructure Credit strategy, a credit-market bet on the AI power buildout.

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