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The Energy Transition Desk 51 stories this week · 445 total

Abei and Shell sign a Spanish solar-storage PPA with no economic terms disclosed

The pair signed a Spanish solar-storage PPA, but capacity, term, price, site, and the identity of the Shell buyer are all missing from the public record.
September 7

BW Ideol's £778,000 keeps a floating-wind slot open

A six-figure payment keeps a factory position alive while the UK's floating wind pipeline still lacks the priced orders that would justify building it.
September 7

Tunisia accepts 455 MW of solar bids, little else

Tunisia's sixth solar round names 455 MW but no winners, tariffs, or timeline, leaving an acceptance still far from a buildable asset.
September 7

EPS opens renewables door with no terms attached

By inviting proposals instead of tendering named megawatts, EPS leaves the price question open until a project and a tariff appear.
September 7

Linxon and ETC agree to Puerto Rico storage and agrivoltaics, details unnamed

Two firms and a territory, with no capacity, capital, or offtake in view — the termless pattern, now one step earlier.
September 7

OWC wins EIB contract for Morocco offshore wind study

A study award sits before any project has a name, and the questions that would make offshore wind investable are still open.
September 7

Comoros solar inauguration comes without terms

A UAE-backed ribbon-cutting confirms panels and batteries, but capacity, owner, and tariff stay off the record.
September 7

Sturdee Energy enters Zambia wind market with 200-MW buy

The megawatt count is real; the capital structure is not yet visible.
September 7

Meta's 125 MW Texas PPA anchors the revenue case

The offtaker's name does more underwriting work than the megawatts.
September 7

Santee Cooper backs a $10 billion grid plan with Google AI

A state utility is buying forecast accuracy as a hedge against $100,000-an-hour winter spot-market misses.
September 4

DoD's 44 GW wind backlog is a capital story

ACP's count attaches a number to the schedule risk that wind developers and lenders cannot price.
September 4

Hyperscaler contracts will set SMR prices

The small modular reactor market is being shaped more by data-center power demand than by utility rate cases.
September 4

China's solar-coal crossing is a capacity milestone, not a cash one

Canary Media's chart shows the raw inversion; its own headline says the revenue-relevant crossing hasn't happened.
September 4

Moscow's 1GW mining load forces a 2032 grid ban

Decree No. 936 bans Moscow-area mining through 2032, treating 1GW of load as sheddable and moving the pressure east.
September 4

Engie's Polish battery buy is an infrastructure bet

A 438-MW storage acquisition points to the right side of the transition and leaves out every term that would value it.
September 4

South Korea's 25 GW offshore wind plan omits the grid queue

The 25 GW target answers the siting question while leaving the grid connection and the buyer unresolved.
September 4

Flex pays $4.4bn for a seat in the grid

The price is infrastructure money for the conversion layer, but the terms that would justify it are missing.
September 4

Floating wind reaches UK gas field, terms missing

Renewables Now records the arrival; the public record still names no owner, capacity, or buyer for the power.
September 4

TenneT advances 2-GW Dutch platform without a price

The platform is sized and moving, but the missing financial terms keep it short of an investable asset.
September 4

EUR 17bn green bond demand points at the grid

A TenneT Netherlands green bond sale has drawn EUR 17bn with almost no terms disclosed, a market verdict on where transition capital now wants to sit.
September 4

Energy Vault’s land deal omits its revenue story

Energy Vault has land for a 1-GWh battery in Australia, but the report omits the contracted revenue that would make it an infrastructure asset.
September 4

Pacifico's $1bn Korean offshore wind pledge names no project

Until Pacifico attaches a project, a capacity figure, and an offtake contract, its $1bn pledge is an intention, not infrastructure.
September 4

Tersis and Flux Core aim to turn waste-to-energy plants into data center sites

A non-binding accord puts modular compute on 10-30MW waste-to-energy sites to skip grid queues; the first project agreement will set the price of that idea.
September 3

Nadara starts the clock on Bellrock's offshore transmission

A scoping filing, with no capacity and no revenue claim, is the week's most honest permitting step.
September 3

Metlen's 12-MW PPA names a buyer, no price

The signed contract moves the company toward contracted revenue but leaves out the number that decides whether the asset earns infrastructure pricing.
September 3

Google's West Virginia deal puts a price on duration

A solar-plus-storage project on a reclaimed coal mine gives long-duration battery storage the one thing it has lacked: a hyperscaler willing to buy capacity, not just energy.
September 3

Blacktail-RayGen park leaves out the numbers

The Texas hybrid announcement names partners and a state, but no capacity, buyer, or price — another unpriced energy deal in the pattern PWD has flagged.
September 3

Alight's Finnish step-up demands an offtake answer

The 101-MWp solar park with Autoliv attached dwarfs Alight's 14.3-MWp Swedish start, and the revenue contract still has no named buyer.
September 3

Vertiv's $2.6 billion bet on the grid edge

The power and cooling supplier will pay $1.45 billion at close and up to $1.15 billion more for UtilityInnovation Group, a controls maker at the point where data centers wait for power.
September 3

New York Bets on Nuclear After Shuttering Indian Point

Albany's carbon-free mandate lost its largest generator, and the state's new nuclear push is the resulting gap made visible.
September 3

Equinor powers up 100-MW/200-MWh Texas battery

The two-hour machine is live, but the revenue contract that would make it infrastructure is absent.
September 3

Nexwell's BESS permit is the real asset

A 100-MWh storage approval shows how the energy transition's bottleneck has moved from panels to permissions.
September 3

Transmission savings study puts PJM at the center of grid buildout

Roughly a dozen Eastern Interconnection projects could cut retail rates and strengthen reliability, but approvals stand between the study and the wires.
September 2

Fervo-Google deal reads as baseload scarcity; delivery is the test

Analysts read the geothermal tie-up as evidence of baseload scarcity, yet William Blair's risk list puts the doubt in the delivery chain, not the resource.
September 2

MN8's Google pact tests solar-plus-storage as one product

An 86-MW solar and Eos storage hybrid for Google will matter most if a larger repeat arrives with terms attached.
September 2

OroCarbo reserves Haffner technology for US hydrogen projects it hasn't named

The reservation secures a place in Haffner's supply queue before OroCarbo has named a project, an offtaker, or an interconnection, leaving a claim on a future plant.
September 2
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