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Without a buyer, price, or capacity, the Brazilian solar sale cannot be benchmarked.

The fiscal pitch for the 2030 target could move a treasury, if the calculation ever shows up.

A 62.7-MW portfolio clears a milestone, but the public record omits lender, facility size, and cost of capital.

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.

Frontier is readying an Australian solar-battery project, but the coverage omits capacity, storage duration, offtake, and financing—those omissions are the story.

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.

A nearly 400-MW offtake gives enhanced geothermal a revenue floor — and a test of whether hyperscaler contracts can underwrite the subsurface.

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.

The non-binding TNB deal adds on-site generation and battery storage to a project that has not closed its land purchase.

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.

A 25 MW IT threshold creates a computational load class, letting the grid operator aim reliability requirements specifically at data centers.

The deployment record is real, but the project names and offtake terms that would make it an infrastructure proof are absent.

California's budget leaves Demand Side Grid Support without new money — a reminder that even successful programs are political line items.

A small factory-floor outlay points to where solar's scarce assets now sit.

A platform launch with no capacity, sites, or offtake terms is the unpriced energy deal in its purest form.

OnZero's agreement with Helen prices data center waste heat as a utility product, a step toward making merchant AI capacity bankable.

The 250-MW round is small capacity but a real benchmark for a sector that has been living on unpriced announcements.

Construction is real; the missing offtake detail is the sector's recurrent tell.

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.

A hybrid plant's baseload supply to a DRC copper miner signals the rise of captive power, though key terms remain undisclosed.

A routine C&I buy in Chile shows distributed solar still transacts in human-scale increments while the headlines chase gigawatts.

The FID buys a place in the connection queue; the offtake question decides what it is worth.

The 22.5-MW start-up shows the template that adds capacity without joining the interconnection queue.

The milestone puts China's solar fleet ahead of coal; grid constraints will decide what that capacity is worth.

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.

A Nordic platform changes hands as the transition premium moves downstream to grid rights and contracted revenue.

The capacity is modest; the precedent is not.

A 100 MW self-supply asset is a planning tool for the conglomerate and a warning for the merchant queue.

A hybrid storage permit application shows the transition's binding constraint is permission to connect.

The announcement clears a political hurdle; the offtake and grid slot will decide whether it clears a financial one.

The 4.4-hour block is a construction milestone, but no offtake terms appear alongside it.

The small survey award is real money spent holding a place in Britain's transmission queue.

Construction has begun on a 17-km hydrogen pipeline in Saarland; the customers who would pay to use it have not been named.

The milestone is real, but the report discloses no owner, capacity, or offtake.

The construction milestone moves the 660-MW project's risk into the second half of the build.

A one-line financing announcement extends a run of opaque supply-chain deals that are moving solar capital out of public view.