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Google signed 396MW before Cape Station produced a kilowatt, making the January 2027 commissioning date the number that carries Fervo's valuation.

The Bungaban sign-off clears one gate and leaves the two that price the asset, connection and offtake, unanswered.

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.

An industrial offtaker makes the missing tariff a private term. The connection point is what prices the plant.

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.

A capacity figure and a country, with nothing attached that would let anyone price either one.

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.

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 deploys Optioneer across five states, turning a venture check into first call on transmission planning and a proving ground for Continuum.

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.

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.

A Polish telecom's 15-year offtake is the underwriting fact Qair's September announcements never delivered, even with price and capacity still blank.

The milestone names the capacity and country; the owner, the offtake, and the price stay off the page.

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.

The announcement names no offtaker, connection right, or sponsor, leaving the 1.3-GW figure to be weighted as an option.

A court ruling may release the money, but the harder repair is the assumption that a federal award is bankable.

A California residential fleet ran as a single grid resource, and the coverage never carries the compensation number that would make the record underwritable.

A state capacity award beats the quarter's blank-column announcements, but it still prices nothing.

No offtaker, no price, no named partner — a finished Greek wind farm with the same disclosure gap as September's German award.

Equinor's Brooklyn staging yard is the visible end of a supply chain whose politics now run through Albany and Sacramento.

A panel of EPRI, PNM, and Sandia engineers argued that microgrids become financeable assets only when utilities can forecast and schedule them.

Seven laws shift grid costs onto operators, put water use under oath, and trade the blanket environmental exemption for a fast lane that runs through engineering.

A Harvard Law argument says the commission can reshape who decides PJM's planning protocol, and the amendment path is where transmission capital gets priced.

The dated dispatch names no offtaker, no contractor, no cost. The only thing it prices is a capacity figure and a state.

A fifth order item in five weeks leaves the blank price column intact, and the small number carries the more useful information.

The 144MW Starling deal keeps Meta's clean-energy claims on ERCOT's grid while the price stays off the record.

A 115-MW REC contract gives the automaker a claim it can file and leaves the merchant risk on a balance sheet the announcement never identifies.

A capacity figure, a country, and no terms — small-portfolio closes keep arriving as milestones rather than prices anyone can check.

A German hybrid contract announced as a volume is a demand signal, and the missing tenor is what leaves it unpriceable.

A reported doubling to $3 billion arrives as a headline total and nothing else, leaving the market to price the backer's patience rather than the developer's equity.

Federal money absorbs the technology risk on a first-of-a-kind reactor; the interconnection, siting, and offtake risk that decides delivery stays entirely private.

A completed purchase with no consideration makes the missing number a disclosure posture rather than an early-stage omission, leaving the market no mark for the platform.

Storage's scarce input is a connection date, and a cell-supply framework buys none of it.

The commission refused a 255 MW turbine on a question of who the power serves, and that test now sits under Duke's $103 billion capital plan.

Wood Mackenzie, the source of that growth rate, now sees utility-scale batteries flat in 2026 — leaving the report's community-payment math as its real contribution.

A capacity claim with one named counterparty tells the market everything except what the asset is worth.